Creating an application on Facebook

You need to register your project as an application on Facebook before you can access the Facebook API using Delphi. We can do this using the following page: https://developers.facebook.com/apps. The page will look like the following screenshot:

We will create the application on the Facebook platform, which is necessary to perform the integration and log in on the Facebook platform for this project and follow these steps:

1. Add a new application to Facebook. For this chapter, we will call it DelphiProjectsPackt:

2. Solve the reCAPTCHA and Submit your information:

3. Navigate to Select a Scenario | Integrate Facebook Login:

4. Before saving changes, fill in the two required fields—Privacy Policy URL and Category:

5. Save the changes.
6. Click on Finish Quickstart, as shown in the following screenshot:

7. Select Web in Quickstart options...