Calling Facebook API without authenticating user/"connecting"

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Hi,

I am working with facebook's API and I want to call the links.prevew method.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Links.preview

Is it possible to call this method without having my user authenticate or "connect"? For example, not all of my users have hooked up their facebook accounts to my website, but I still want to use this API method.

I am getting the following error: Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: 453: A session key is required for calling this method thrown in /public_html/libs/facebook.php on line 413

But on the wiki it says that the method does not require a session key?

If it is not possible to make API calls without such a key, is there anyway I can make calls on behalf of my account or my applications account (rather then a users account)?

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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