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Rafael 'BSIDES' Pereira
Rafael 'BSIDES' Pereira

Reputation: 3071

Facebook Access Token for Pages

I have a Facebook Page that I want to get some things from it. First thing are feeds and from what I read they are public (no need for access_token). But I want to also get the events... and they aren't public and need the access_token.

I don't want the user to login in Facebook or anything like that. I just want to push all the data I can from this only page. That's why I already discarded many examples I found here and the one at https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/500/ , because they want the user to login or require some user action I'm not interessed.

What I want is that my Facebook Application have full authorization and access_token to push the data from this one Facebook Page that I own (admin). Is this possible? I already tried many things but nothing seems to work.

I tried clicking at this: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=150635421702954&redirect_uri=http://MY_URL/&scope=manage_pages&response_type=token&fields=access_token - changing MY_URL to my site's and it requests authorization to edit every page I own. Even not being what I want I clicked but had no access_token in return...

Upvotes: 124

Views: 192352

Answers (4)

Varun Kumar
Varun Kumar

Reputation: 2751

I was attempting to retrieve the Page access token from Graph API Explorer, but I did not have the option to select the Page.

It turns out that I was not an admin of the page. I was an admin of the Facebook App, and the App had access to the Facebook page, enabling me to access the page as well. This caused the confusion and chaos.

Upvotes: 0

Anthony
Anthony

Reputation: 14309

The documentation for this is good if not a little difficult to find.

Facebook Graph API - Page Tokens

After initializing node's fbgraph, you can run:

var facebookAccountID = yourAccountIdHere 

graph
.setOptions(options)
.get(facebookAccountId + "/accounts", function(err, res) {
  console.log(res); 
});

and receive a JSON response with the token you want to grab, located at:

res.data[0].access_token

Upvotes: 5

Robin Layfield
Robin Layfield

Reputation: 1618

See here if you want to grant a Facebook App permanent access to a page (even when you / the app owner are logged out):

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-app-tokens/

"An App Access Token does not expire unless you refresh the application secret through your app settings."

Upvotes: 16

ifaour
ifaour

Reputation: 38135

  1. Go to the Graph API Explorer
  2. Choose your app from the dropdown menu
  3. Click "Get Access Token"
  4. Choose the manage_pages permission (you may need the user_events permission too, not sure)
  5. Now access the me/accounts connection and copy your page's access_token
  6. Click on your page's id
  7. Add the page's access_token to the GET fields
  8. Call the connection you want (e.g.: PAGE_ID/events)

Upvotes: 276

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