I have no idea about how facebook tokens or APIs work, so please excuse my ignorance.
I am trying to get a access token to display my posts to my wall. My website is www.quadscene.co.nz and on the homepage I am trying to display all posts to wall.
I have created a access token using some tools within facebook, but they expire within about 2 hours, these token work fine when selecting the user_posts option or permission, however all other access tokens ive tried do not display posts.
I think its using OAuth.
Is there a way to create a token that will not expire? and has the user_posts permissions?
Thanks in advance!
You need to read the docs to understand how OAuth works and what different access tokens are available.
Specifically, you need to look at the long-lived tokens.
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I know how to get short-term user access token then extend it to long-term access token (facebook) when i have my own app id and app secret. But now I want to get and extend the access token provided by Graph Api Explorer. How can I do it ?
If we do it manually, we get an access token from Graph Api Explorer but its short term and will expires in about 1 hours, how can I make it a long-term access token?
This is not possible. To extend the Access Tokens, you must utilize an app_id as well as an app_secret. I assume you don't have the app_secret of the Graph Explorer, so this might get difficult.
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens#extending
I still have this issue and Tobi not understood the problem.
The Facebook Access Tokens are really problematic most of times and this is one of the bigger issue.
I have a facebook stream plugin where user can show their personal profile posts.
But the only access token that work is the one generated by Graph API Explorer and this can not be extended. Any other access token associated to an APP will not work.
Is incredible that Facebook not have a tool to allow users to generate an access token for access their personal informations.
Currently there is not any working solution. Incredible.
As per facebook API documentation we can get Facebook Page ratings using "/{page_id}/ratings". For this we need page access token.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/page/ratings
How can I get Page Access Token from facebook application.
Please help me.
Thanks,
You can use the
/me/accounts
endpoint as described here:https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/accounts/
Be sure to grant the manage_pages permission. Try it
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=me%2Faccounts&version=v2.0
Furthermore, I'd recommend to exchange the short-lived token from the last step to a long-lived one (60 days) as described here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/#extending
I'm using a facebook extension in TYPO3 to pull out the facebook posts of a page. Therefor I need the accesstoken.
I googled around and found that I need a facebook app and I need to be administrator of the page.
Then I heard that I need to connet the app with the site, but how can I do this?
I also tried to get accesstoken:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APP_ID&client_secret=APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials
And then performing:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=fb_exchange_token& client_id={app-id}&client_secret={app-secret}&fb_exchange_token={short-lived-token}
... with this token but it says No user access token specified
Can someone help me step by step how to get the long lived token?
As you just want to pull, you really don't need a page access token. Until and unless you have a demographic or other restriction over your page. All the pages are Public and data over them can be easily accessed by using the App Access Token which is simply put
Your_App_ID|Your_App_Secret
first u need to get an API key from facebook, so here are the steps--->
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-acquire-your-facebook-api-key.html
& then u can access facebook API, these are docs provided by the facebook to use that API--->
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web/
This was my implementation (PHP):
$newposts = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/YOURFBPAGE/feed&access_token=YOURAPPID|YOURAPPSECRET"));
Since I was only using this to make simple pull request of my feed posts this is the best way to do it. You don't have to deal with expiring access tokens. Just create your facebook App and get the ID and secret.
How to get offline access token of facebook?
I know that from recently time is out of date. And if I can't get offline access tokens.
What solutions of this problem is?
If you want to get a fresh token, simply follow this guide. You can obtain it through the JavaScript SDK, or doing a request to Oauth. In both cases the user will not notice anything unless he de-authenticated your app.
I created an APP on Facebook and using graph API explorer, I selected my app from app drop down box, requested access token with manage_pages, offline_access and publish_stream permissions.
Using this access token, I was successfully able to post message on page using restfb APIs but when I log out, it starts throwing The session is invalid error.
I read on few posts that offline_access is deprecated. Could someone tell me how to obtain permanent access token?
Thanks
Looking at the docs at: https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/ this is no longer possible.
Desktop applications will not be able to extend the life of an
existing access_token and the user must login to facebook once the
token has expired.
Otherwise, it is possible to request an access token with a longer expiration. Here are the directions: https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/#extend_token
What kind of Access Token do you need? There are three kinds, User AT, App AT and Page AT.
If you want User AT, it seems you are out of luck. I don't think it's possible anymore. You can only get to 60 days. However, if you need Page AT, you can get a permanent one. The difference is, Page Access Token only has access to a single facebook page.
Basically you need to get User Access Token first, with manage_pages permission. When you have one, you have to look at /{pageId}?fields=access_token for your page's id in Graph API.
For more info look at: facebook: permanent Page Access Token?
you will not get any permanent access token as Facebook developer blog explains. you will be given 60 days long lived access token. Before the expiration Facebook will notify you about the expiry and then you can renew it or you can build your own custom control to get the notification on token expiration which you can fetch from Facebook API.