Become a fan of a Facebook page through the API?

Question

In my specific case, I'm writing an iPhone application. I've seen widgets you can place on your website that users can click on to become a fan of your page, but I can't find anywhere in the api or documentation, a way that you can facilitate "becoming a fan" through an application. Has anyone else had success with this? I've spent about a day and a half pouring through the facebook api docs and the cloud.

For example, say I was writing an app that listed cars, and I wanted to become a fan of the Delorean from within my app -- is there a way to do this?

If there is no solution, the alternative way I can think of is using a webview and linking to a page with a fan widget. Thanks,

Andrew

Answer 1

Fan'ing via the API is currently not possible

The reason is most properbly it would be to hard to avoid developers tricking users into become fans

The only way is the fan_box widget (its possible to remove all elements via css and configurator and to leave just the button)

Most Apps either use the button or simply link to the page.