I have a web application that runs a schedule job which pulls in the Facebook reviews from a page which I manage. Here is a snippet
public void Execute(IJobExecutionContext context)
{
//get api details from the web.config
var pageId = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FacebookPageId"];
var token = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FacebookAPIToken"];
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(token))
{
//create a facebook client object
var client = new FacebookClient(token);
//make a call to facebook to retrieve the json data
dynamic graphJson = client.Get(pageId + "?fields=ratings{review_text,reviewer,rating}").ToString();
//deserialize the json returned from facebook
ReviewDeserializeData reviews = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ReviewDeserializeData>(graphJson);
//loop through the deserialized data and pass each review to the import class
foreach (var rating in reviews.ratings.data)
{
var fbRating = new FacebookRating
{
RatingReviewerId = long.Parse(rating.reviewer.id),
StarRating = rating.rating,
ReviewerName = rating.reviewer.name,
ReviewText = rating.review_text
};
ImportFacebookRating.ImportTheFacebookRating(fbRating);
}
}
}
This works great until the Page Access Token expires. I have tried following many articles such as this one https://medium.com/@Jenananthan/how-to-create-non-expiry-facebook-page-token-6505c642d0b1#.24vb5pyiv but i have had no luck fixing the token expiring.
Does anyone know how i can achieve this or is there a way to programmatically generate a new token if the existing one has expired? at the moment i have it stored in the web.config as an app setting.
Thanks
