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ASHUTOSH
ASHUTOSH

Reputation: 892

Expiry Time of facebook access token

How do I find at what time an access token is going to expire in php?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6727

Answers (2)

a11hard
a11hard

Reputation: 2054

The token you receive initially from Facebook in the signed_request expires in 2 hours or 7200000 milliseconds or 7200 seconds. If you extend the token with the below request you will receive a new expire time of 5184000 seconds in the response which converts to 60 days. What I typically do is store this time in milliseconds added to the current Unix time in milliseconds since the epoch and continually check against that time when needed.

Extending the token:

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?             
    client_id=APP_ID&
    client_secret=APP_SECRET&
    grant_type=fb_exchange_token&
    fb_exchange_token=EXISTING_ACCESS_TOKEN

As an example I would request that sources information on the client side and do the following check..

if (response.user.sources.FACEBOOK.expires > new Date().getTime() ) {
    //do something
}

Upvotes: 5

Mary Trakker
Mary Trakker

Reputation: 41

Not sure why you would want to try to determine that? An access token can expire if at anytime a user de-authorizes your app or changes their password.

read this Facebook - How-To: Handle expired access tokens

Also, I believe facebook is leading towards all apps being granted 60 day tokens. I could be wrong, but if you enable the deprecate of offline access tokens, your ap should be granted a 60 day token. that token reups to 60 days if your user revisits your ap.

Upvotes: 0

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