title: Facebook access token for userless polling app
body: <p>I want to write an app that tracks and displays events on specific facebook pages in a special way. The point is that the application will run on displays within environments such as clubs to draw (physical) visitors to the facebook presentation of the club. The normal facebook layout is unsuited for this kind of presentation.</p>
  
  <p>Now I'm troubled by the facebook login api. It seems that only a browser can log in, with a user manually driving the flow.</p>
  
  <p>I need some form of non-interactive login - there won't be any user on the machine the app is running on.</p>
  
  <p>There is the app access token, but for some reason that one is <em>write-only</em>.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to post any content, my app is read-only.</p>
  
  <p>As far as I'm aware, there are applications such as Spotify, that can interact with facebook without presenting users with browser-driven facebook logins all the time.</p>
  
  <p>So am I overlooking something?</p>