How can i post the feed to facebook page as admin using c# sdk? - facebook

Question

I want to update the facebookpage using c# sdk. I have partially successful with this, the problem is whenever I post messages to the page, post is visible only for admin(i am the admin of the page)is logged In. I want the post or feed to be visible to every one who visit the page.
(even admin is logged out post's are not visible to admin also)
The following code i am trying to achieve
public ActionResult FacebookPagePost()
{
string app_id = "xxxx";
string app_secret = "xxx";
string scope = "publish_stream,manage_pages";
string page_Id = "xxX";
if (Request["code"] == null)
{
return Redirect(string.Format(
"https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&scope={2}",
app_id, Request.Url.AbsoluteUri, scope));
}
else
{
try
{
Dictionary<string, string> tokens = new Dictionary<string, string>();
string url = string.Format("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&scope={2}&code={3}&client_secret={4}",
app_id, Request.Url.AbsoluteUri, scope, Request["code"].ToString(), app_secret);
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string vals = reader.ReadToEnd();
foreach (string token in vals.Split('&'))
{
tokens.Add(token.Substring(0, token.IndexOf("=")),
token.Substring(token.IndexOf("=") + 1, token.Length - token.IndexOf("=") - 1));
}
}
string access_token = tokens["access_token"];
var client = new FacebookClient(access_token);
dynamic fbAccounts = client.Get("/me/accounts");
dynamic messagePost = new ExpandoObject();
messagePost.picture = "http://pic.com/pic.png";
messagePost.link = "http://www.examplearticle.com";
messagePost.name = "name goes here";
messagePost.description = "description goes here";
//Loop over the accounts looking for the ID that matches your destination ID (Fan Page ID)
foreach (dynamic account in fbAccounts.data) {
if (account.id == page_Id)
{
//When you find it, grab the associated access token and put it in the Dictionary to pass in the FB Post, then break out.
messagePost.access_token = account.access_token;
break;
}
}
client.Post("/" + page_Id + "/feed", messagePost);
}
catch (FacebookOAuthException ex)
{
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
}
}

Answer 1

1) Create a Facebook App at: developers.facebook.com and get yourself an APPID and APPSECRET. (there are a lot of tutorials online for doing this so I will skip repeating it)
2) Go to: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer and choose your app from the dropdown and click "generate access token".
3) After that do the following steps here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17197970/facebook-permanent-page-access-token to get yourself a permanent page token.
(I can not stress this enough, follow the steps carefully and thoroughly)*
*I have tool I built that does this for me, all I enter is the APPID, APPSECRET and ACCESSTOKEN which the tool then generates a permanent page token for me. Anyone is welcomed to use it and help make it better,
https://github.com/devfunkd/facebookpagetokengenerator
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Ok at this point you should have your APPID, APPSECRET and a PERMANENT PAGE TOKEN.
=========================================================================
In your Visual Studio solution:
4) Using Nuget:Install-Package Facebook
5) Implement the Facebook client:
public void PostMessage(string message)
{
try
{
var fb = new FacebookClient
{
AppId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("FacebookAppID"),
AppSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("FacebookAppSecret"),
AccessToken = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("FacebookAccessToken")
};
dynamic result = fb.Post("me/feed", new
{
message = message
});
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
// Handle your exception
}
}
I hope this helps anyone who is struggling to figure this out.