This question, or very similar has been asked before - but I think FB has changed their developer console since.
I'm developing an FB app and would like to test it internally with staff - around 500-1000 is the intention.
Is there a limit to how any real test users I can add within the Roles section in the developer console?
Thanks!
According to Facebook Test Users documentation section, you're limited to only 2000 test users per application.
Apps are limited to 2000 Test Users.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/test-users/
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I am working on PHP application which will be shipped to many users for their own.
App needs to integrate
Facebook api for auto post their web articles to their fb profile/page.
Twitter api for same purpose as above and to search for tweets/users.
Youtube api to upload videos to their user account.
I already have completed the software, Right now software has api settings menu for each of them. Where user create their own app on respective platform and setup app id/secrets etc... IT works fine...
But I am looking for a way where, we use our own app codes, and user only has to click on button which redirect them to their platform and they can allow access to our app. So they dont have to go through their own app creation.
Just like how login with social media things work...
I know thats possible and my question is not about how to do this...
My question is about IF I do that, will that create any App usage limitation issues for users ? For example, if I create my own Youtube app settings from http://console.developers.google.com/ and all users just authorise my app to their account, will it create any issues if all users (may be 2000 users) uploads upto 5 videos per day ? Will the usage limit counted per application or per user access assigned ?
I need the answer for facebook/twitter and youtube. I know some one how has already done this can answer this quickly and easily...
Thanks for reading my question...
I am software tester working on outsourced projects for many clients.
Frequently, I am required to test Facebook apps just before they go live. Often, the content of the app requires several interactions with other Facebook friends, including pulling of tagged photos and retrieving a user's info.
Most advice suggests that I should be using Facebook test accounts, created by a developer of a specific app. However, due to the complexity of some of the requirements in order to fully test certain apps, a dummy account - pre-filled with 'real' information is much more practical to use. It is clear that if we were to add all of this detail to Facebook test accounts for every new project, we would never get any time to actually test the app.
My company has approximately 20-30 dummy user accounts on Facebook, all of which have a good level of detail including personal info, photos, friend networks etc. These are perfect for testing as they are normal Facebook accounts. We always set option to private to prevent any sensitive material from being seen by the general public.
Over the last moth or more, our dummy user accounts are being systematically wiped out where Facebook is blocking them. Clearly, we cannot re-instate these accounts as we have no ID for the 'dummy' users.
Our aim is to aid the developers to improve the quality of their Facebook apps, and so has no detrimental effect on Facebook as a company or a brand.
Is there any way to achieve our requirements without the constant battle to maintain our dummy accounts?
Login to facebook. Then use /whitehat in the URL. On the left hand side you will get an option to create test accounts.
Test users are the only way to do this without violating Facebook's terms of service.
You can use multiple apps with a Test User, assuming you're not deleting and recreating them between test runs
I am working on an automated test script to create test users and connect them as friends with each other to load test and profile parts of my app.
The test user documentation states a limit of a maximum 500 test users per application.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/
An app can create up to 500 test users to start testing an app. If you exceed the limit of test users you can create for an app you will receive an error.
Anyone else out there ever needed to push past this limit, and how did you achieve testing with communities of users larger than 500? I want to test with users who have between 2000 and 3000 Facebook friends. Yes, such characters are out there in the real world :) Note: as per a comment below it is highly unusual to find users with such large numbers of friend connections. See the comment for a link to stats.
One option which I'm experimenting with is to create multiple apps and "friend" the test users between apps, which seems to be possible. This seems like unnecessary work though.
I'm also considering stubbing the Facebook API with my own local server, but this feels wrong too. There might be libraries for doing this easily?
Since no one has answered this for quite a while, I thought I'd just post the way I solved this for now, in case someone else needs it some day.
Facebook allows you to add and "share" test users between multiple apps for which you are an administrator.
Therefore, I created several extra test Facebook apps for myself, besides the one I am already testing.
Then I added almost 500 test users to each (using the create test user API call).
I then associated some existing "core" test users across all the apps from the original test application (see below for documentation on how to do this) taking the additional apps up to their 500 limit.
Once the "core" users were added across all the test apps, I then made the "core" users friends with all the other users in each test app (this needs to be done within each test app - ie using the access tokens of the additional test app, not the original app).
The final result is that the "core" group from the original app are friends with users from outside the original app, allowing their friend list to grow beyond the artificial testing user limit of 500. So from the original app I now have a collection of core users who can have as many friends as I'm prepared to go to the hassle of creating, in batches just under 500 in size.
There might be an easier way, but that's it for now.
I didn't explore the idea of stubbing the Facebook API - still an interesting idea!
From the documentation:
Adding existing test users to other apps
You can add existing test users to other apps by using the Graph API with the app access token that you're adding the user to.
https://graph.facebook.com/APP_ID/accounts/test-users?
installed=true
&permissions=read_stream
&uid=TEST_USER_ID
&owner_access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN_OWNER
&access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN
&method=post
Parameters:
uid : User id of the existing test user
owner_access_token : App access token of the app used to create the test user
Facebook Test Users Documentation: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/
I am trying to set up a test environment to test Facebook pages & apps... since I am new to Facebook development I am hoping to get advice from someone who's had more experience than I with building Facebook apps...
I was planning on setting up a test Facebook page that is private (only visible to admins). Then create & add sandbox apps to the private page.
I need the page & apps to NOT be visible to the public in this test environment at all. However, I need to be able to add more developers, admins, & testers to access the testing environment. I think I should be able to accomplish this by adding admins to the Facebook page & adding developers/testers to the Facebook apps. Unfortunately, it appears Facebook does not have a "full" sandbox feature for pages & apps. So, is this the best way to set up an environment for testing pages & apps within the Facebook environment?
#Brigette by default it is private. The app you create is only assessable to you or to people you want to assign in your development team. Your friends will not be able to see it nor will it be searchable. It will not be visible until you actually publish it. Have a read on Facebook Developer - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/
The docs are quite good and what you cant find have a snoop in the forums as most of the questions you may have are already answered. Hope that helps. :)
I'm working on developing a Facebook application that accesses the user's friends list.
Since some can have thousands of friends, what's the best method to simulate this?
I want to performance test before letting it out in the wild.
Does Facebook have any sandbox account where one can create dummy accounts?
Facebook have recently implemented a feature allowing you to add up to 50 test users, it's probably not enough users to reliably test though:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/
Why not ask a couple of users with lots of friends to beta test for you?