Facebook Access Token for Pages

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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...

To get events I do this now (the access_token expires a lot): 1 - Get a token from the Graph Explorer 2 - Paste it in my code below: `var authToken = 'THE_CODE_I_GOT';` `var feedQuery = 'graph.facebook.com/MY_PAGE_ID/feed';` `var feedURL = feedQuery +'?access_token='+ authToken +'&callback=?'; ` `$.getJSON(feedURL,function(data){ `var d = data.data; for( i=0; i < d.length; i++) { d[i].message ? $("#list").append('
You can get a permanent token: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17197970/facebook-permanent-page-access-token/17234650#17234650 — Josh, Oct 25 '13 at 03:19

score 273 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '11 at 22:48

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

answered Nov 22 '11 at 22:48

ifaour

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By doing this I'm able to call connections on all my pages by using a page token of only one of them. Isn't this wrong? Is there a way to get a token for just one specific page that doesn't work on the other pages? – andresp Aug 21 '12 at 22:32
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I've climb mountains and swim oceans just seek for this answer. Thank you. – IMB Nov 22 '12 at 17:08
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This process doesn't work anymore as the access token generated expires when you log out for whatever reason. – coneybeare Jan 06 '13 at 17:24
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@coneybeare, please refer to this document on how to extend the [page access token](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/extending-tokens/#pagetokens) – ifaour Jan 10 '13 at 11:55
I am not able to see the 3 rd point, that is (Get Access Token). So can you please tell me the process, to get token, and active it out.? – Keyur Mistry Apr 24 '14 at 07:39
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I keep getting an empty result. Does it make a difference if it is an app page? – Max Jul 16 '14 at 17:25
As I wanted to say thank you I also want to add that this seems to be the only (at last one i found) way to obtain page access token. – Grzegorz Nov 16 '14 at 07:25
This used to work for me but doesn't after April 30th. – GrantJ May 08 '15 at 00:05
@Tony, what doesn't work? what have you tried? and what do you want to achieve? – ifaour Jun 29 '15 at 12:40
get a specific page public posts without user login using my app access token – Antwan Jun 29 '15 at 13:07
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@Tony, this should work for public posts, try this on [cocacola/feed](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=cocacola%2Ffeed&). Select your app from a dropdown, and then "Get App Token" and test. – ifaour Jun 30 '15 at 12:01
I dont have a app for that page, so used a different add_id and secret with this pages auth token and got this "Invalid appsecret_proof provided in the API argument" – almaruf Jul 11 '16 at 13:24
@ifaour tnanx a lot for your answer! – Nick Bondarenko Nov 16 '16 at 12:29
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Hi. can i add a page post with user access token who is admin of the page? please help me – PHP Ninja Aug 22 '17 at 09:54
There is a way to make the token never to expire. Check this answer for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39182923/4171578 – Amade Feb 14 '18 at 12:21
Sure, but how do I get ONE page's access token? At the moment, our app manages hundreds of pages. Using this method, we must make numerous requests until we get the access token for the right business. – Jesse Novotny Aug 24 '18 at 18:13
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This does not work anymore, seems that there is not a way to publish to your own page with an api now. – albanx Mar 03 '19 at 12:29
Anyone have recently achieved this? I'm looking for this. Please help. – Pedram Jul 11 '19 at 12:07
I do not feel people are using facebook that much like before, any how they should provide simple solutions to access at least page likes – Aadam Oct 02 '19 at 07:53
a programmatic approach would have served better. This only helps for testing the API calls, but the real issue is how to do it with code. – Masroor Oct 23 '20 at 14:56

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '12 at 21:47

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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."

answered Sep 06 '12 at 21:47

Robin Layfield

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This does not help with getting events for a restricted page. – Sinan Jan 21 '13 at 13:53
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Is that still true?! – jeromej Feb 07 '18 at 08:51

Anthony · Answer 3 · 2015-05-22T03:02:37.847

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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

edited May 22 '15 at 03:02

answered May 06 '15 at 21:45

Anthony

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Arpit Jain · Answer 4 · 2023-05-25T06:36:40.597

I found Graph API Explorer the best way to generate and test the tokens. You can also get the Code for your Request if you want to create these tokens programmatically.

According to Access token Guide - Page Access Tokens, To get the Page Access Tokens, we need to hit this endpoint -

curl -i -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/{your-user-id}/accounts?access_token={user-access-token}

So to get the Page Access Token, we need to first get User Access Token and User ID.

To Get the User Access Token, you can follow this Graph API - Get Started step-by-step guide. Basically, we need to hit the following endpoint to get the User Access Token. You can get the App ID, and App Secret from https://developers.facebook.com/apps/. Select your App and then Click on the Settings dropdown on the left sidebar of the dashboard and click on Basic.

cURL Request:-

curl -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={your-app-id}&client_secret={your-app-secret}&grant_type=client_credentials"

Graph API explorer:

I am creating tokens with (Permission) Scope: pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement, pages_manage_metadata, pages_read_user_content, pages_manage_ads, pages_manage_posts, pages_manage_engagement, public_profile, you can add/remove as per your need.

To Get Your User ID, You can follow Graph API -Get Started OR Graph API Explorer Guide we just simply need to use:-

GET https://developers.facebook.com/v5.0/me?fields=id,name

Now we can get the Page Access Tokens like below:- This returns a list of pages you have a role and information about each Page such as the Page category, the specific permissions you have on each Page, and the Page access token.

cURL Request:-

curl -i -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/{your-user-id}/accounts?access_token={user-access-token}

Response:-

{
  "data": [
    {
      "access_token": "EAACEdE...",//This is Page Access Token
      "category": "Brand",
      "category_list": [
        {
          "id": "1605186416478696",
          "name": "Brand"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Ash Cat Page",//This is page-name
      "id": "1353269864728879",//This is page-id
      "tasks": [
        "ANALYZE",
        "ADVERTISE",
        "MODERATE",
        "CREATE_CONTENT",
        "MANAGE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "access_token": "EAACEdE...",
      "category": "Pet Groomer",
      "category_list": [
        {
          "id": "163003840417682",
          "name": "Pet Groomer"
        },
        {
          "id": "2632",
          "name": "Pet"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Unofficial: Tigger the Cat",
      "id": "1755847768034402",
      "tasks": [
        "ANALYZE",
        "ADVERTISE",
        "MODERATE",
        "CREATE_CONTENT"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Graph API explorer:-

To Get the other tokens like User Access Tokens, Long-lived Tokens, etc. you can follow the same approach.

Hope this helps, Let me know if you think I should add more details.

You can also directly query the `/me/accounts` endpoint to get the ID and **Page Access Token** of the Page the app User has permitted your app to access instead of first getting the user-id and then get Page Access Token — Arpit Jain, May 26 '23 at 10:25
`GET /me/accounts` endpoint translates to `GET /{user-id}/accounts` — Arpit Jain, Jun 01 '23 at 17:55

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