I want to generate a page access token with graph API 5.0 and don't know how to do.
I have an app, linked to a page which I am administrator, with all the permissions I need.
Everything works fine inside the graph API explorer.
The documentation says I need a user access token in order to get the page access token, using https://graph.facebook.com/v5.0/me/accounts?access_token=$user_access_token.
The problem is I don't know how to get it programmatically without having to confirm in the facebook popup. All I have now is the app access token, but this is an invalid parameter this endpoint.
Does somebody know where I'm wrong?
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I create a demo application to request photos from facebook. I created an application token like this : 549933848476397|4a584ce5fda19cba2ed6630ed78ba8f4. But when use this request URL https://graph.facebook.com/1417833425116725/photos?access_token={app_id}|{app_secret}. It's does not work. Please help me. Actually When I use user token for this request, It's work ok.
If the Page is restricted somehow (age, location), you can only use a User or Page Access Token to get data like photos of the Page. The App Access Token got no relation to any User, so Facebook can´t detect if the User is even allowed to see the Page.
I am 100% sure the Page is restricted btw, you get an "Unsupported get request" error when trying to access the Page ID directly with the Graph API, and that usually happens when the Page is restricted.
Just try another Page with that exact same App Access Token, for example:
/bladauhu/photos
...works without any problem. Another sign that your Page is indeed restricted.
TL;DR: For this specific Page, you MUST use a User Token or Page Token.
I am trying to delete an application tab from a facebook page.
According to the documentation, I should issue a DELETE request to "https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/tabs/app_ID" with a "manage_pages" access token, but when I do so I get the error "(#210) Subject must be a page."
I have requested the user for "manage_pages" permission and I have the correct access_token (GET Method works perfectly to show all the details).
The exact request is:
https://graph.facebook.com/270936169730418/tabs/app_533644953422033 (with an access token)
Does anyone know what am I doing wrong??
P.S I am using JS SDK and also trying to do this in the graph api explorer but results are the same.
The problem is with the access token. When using the Graph API Explorer (and checking "manage_pages") you might think that the access token showing at the top is a page access token. It is not.
You need to do GET /me/accounts
Then find the page you want and there is an access_token. Copy this and paste it into the Access Token input field at the top. Now do the DELETE [PAGE_ID]/apps_[APP_ID] and it will work.
I am trying to get events from a Facebook page via Ajax.
But there should be no login process for user. For this reason I am trying to implement "Login as an App" by following the the documentation on this page.
I am getting the access token correctly by
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
&grant_type=client_credentials
However when I try to query Facebook Graph API with this access token I am getting an empty result set.
This is an example request;
https://graph.facebook.com/FAN_PAGE/events?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
I know the result set should not be empty because the same request with Graph Explorer returns the correct values.
Even a request like https://graph.facebook.com/FAN_PAGE/events?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN_FROM_GRAPH_EXPLORER works correctly.
Any idea on whats going on? How can I get this to work correctly?
Actually the reason was not about the access token. The reason is that the page I want to get the events for is restricted. This works fine for unrestricted pages.
After a little research I found out that to read a restricted page's events (or posts etc.) you need a user access token. You get this by asking the user. (at login flow)
The other solution to get this data without prompting for a login is to get "page access token". You can generate a page access token by following this link.
And more on Access Tokens
I have tried just about everything at this point, but I cannot get a like or a comment to show up as my user, if I am logged in as the admin of a page. My app allows people to manage their pages, but even if I pass my user's access token back instead of my page's access token, it still performs the action as though it were the page. This is also true of the Graph API explorer. I've logged into Facebook, flipped over to posting as user, then ran the graph API on the post in question, generating a fresh access token from there and the post STILL showed up as the page! Is this broken? Should I submit this bug to FB?
Yes I have all the required permissions, yes I'm verifying that I'm using the user access token and not the page access token... the Facebook API returns true every time, however, even through the Graph API explorer and not through my app.
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/408406055876958
This is a known facebook bug, opened in July, with no timetable for fixing it.
I am trying to access a public FB community page and display the images on web page, example-http://www.codeofaninja.com/2011/06/display-facebook-photos-to-your-website.html
My site is being developed in java, so I am looking for a core java solution to do something like this.
My site does not prompt for the user to login via Facebook or authenticate. I am simply trying to display all the images from my own album on my website.
I have created an FB app, and then created a community page on which I have my pictures.
I am struggling to I authenticate from the backend code of my with my app or page. My app has user_photos permission and the App Type (Apps->Your APP->Advanced->App type) is Web.
Here are the things I tried using graph API:
1) Get access token
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=ABC&client_secret=XYZ&grant_type=client_credentials
2) Then use access token to get access to the page and its albums, but the above gives me app access_token. As mentioned on Graph API documentation for Page it requires a page acess_token, but I am not understanding how do I get the page_access_token via an app access_token with a backend application.
After Page access token is retrieved I can use the following call to retrieve all photos.
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/photos?access_token=<page_access_token>
You can make the following Graph API call To get the page access tokens for all the Pages a particular user admin.
https://graph.facebook.com/user_id/accounts?access_token=<user_acess_token>
the app access token that you're retrieving from
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=ABC&client_secret=XYZ&grant_type=client_credentials
can be used to access the public data on a page - you don't need a specific 'page' access token.
this page https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ is handy for testing things out - plug in the app access token and the page url to try it out
but I am not understanding how do I get the page_access_token via an app access_token with a backend application.
Not at all …
To get a page access token, you have to have a user access token with manage_pages permission first.
(If you get a long-lived user access token, and use that to get the page access token, then the latter will not expire by default.)