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Reputation:

Do facebook app tokens expire?

I'm reading up on Facebook Access Tokens. I need to generate an app token to inspect an access token I got from a user. This is described here, but isn't that relevant now.

I can write software which generates an app token through the access_token endpoint every time I need to inspect a user's access token. However, that would take some time, and I'd like to avoid it if possible.
I would like to know if these app tokens can expire.

If not, is it a good idea to just store the app token in plaintext in my (server-side) code? That way I can reduce HTTP requests to the API.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 580

Answers (1)

phwd
phwd

Reputation: 19995

Unless you change the secret they do not expire

An App Access Token is signed using your app secret and will not expire; it will be invalidated if you re-key/reset your application secret.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/publishing-with-app-token/

Upvotes: 2

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