How to debug facebook Access Token

In the previous articles we have seen “How to build your own facebook app?” and “How to create Facebook Access Token?”. Now in this article we will focus on how to debug facebook access token
There are two ways for debugging the facebook access token.

1. You can directly use “Access Token Debugger”
2. You can use “Access Token Tool” to debug access token of each individual facebook app

And we will look on “How to extend the validity of Facebook Access Token?”
Let begin one by one
1.“Access Token Debugger” – This is one of simplest method to debug any facebook access token.

• Goto “https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/accesstoken”
• It will ask for your facebook credentials. Please provide your login credentials
• After successful login you will see following screen

• Enter your access token and click on the debug button and it will show you all the statstics of you access token
• There one more ways by which you can directly append “Accesstoken” at the end of URL and it will debug it. For example “https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/accesstoken?q=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN&version=v2.8”

2.“Access Token Tool” – If you have created multiple facebook app on your developers account than you can follow this step to debug the access token of each individual facebook app.

• Goto “https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/accesstoken”
• It will ask for your facebook credentials. Please provide your login credentials
• After login click on “Tools & Support” located on the top menu bar

• Now go down the screen and click on “Access Token Tool”

• Now you can see all the facebook app which you have created previously on this page. Just find the app which you have created and click on the “Debug” button located in front of Access Token.

• Once you will click on the “Debug” button you will redirected to “Access Token Debugger” screen.

How to extend the validity of Access Token?

After the facebook has upgraded its UI of Access Token debugger, we can now easiy just go and click on the “Extend Access Token” button located just below the “Access Token Debugger” screen.And you are go to go with extended Access Token.
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Create Facebook Access Token

Facebook provides “Access Token Tool” facility which can be used to generate access token for all the “Facebook App” which you have created.
“Access Token Tool” can be used for the following purpose : -

1. Getting the new “Access Token”
2. Debugging the “Access Token” (Here debugging term means checking the expiry of token, validity of token, scopes)
3. Extend Access Token

We will take one step at a time. Let’s have look on our first point -
1. Getting the new “Access Token: – In our previous post we have seen “How to build your own facebook page” and created a app called “NewDemoApp”. Now here in this article we will create access token for the App “NewDemoApp”.

• First step is we need to login to “https://developers.facebook.com”.
• Once you logged-in into the facebook developer’s account goto “Tools & Support”.

• After clicking on the “Tools & Support” further down the screen you can see a link for “Access Token Tool”, please click on the link.

• Once you click on the “Access Token Tool” it will redirect you to new page and there you can find your facebook app “NewDemoApp” which you have created previously.

• Now you are alomost ready to create the access token for your app, just click on the link “need to grant permissions”

• A pop-up message will appear on the screen with caption “Access Token created”

• Just click on continue and your access token is now ready. Please have a look the screencast below (Actual token is blurred due to security reason)

Conclusion : -

1. In this article we have seen how to use “Access Token tool”
2. Following the above steps you can generate the “Access Token” for your app

In the next article we will focus on “How to debug the Access Token?” and “How to Extend the Access Token Validity?”
Click on the below link for debugging and Exteding the access token validity

• Click Here for:- “How to debug facebook Access Token and How to Extend facebook Access Token Validity?”

Build your own facebook app

Objective : – In this article we will have look on the new changes which facebook has made for the “Facebook GRAPH API”.
In this article we will have look on the detail steps which we need to follow to create “Facebook App” for website.
Steps: -

• Goto the developer website of facebook “https://developers.facebook.com/”
• Login to “https://developers.facebook.com/” using your own facebook credentials
• On the top right corner of the website you will see a drop down option “My Apps”.

• Click on the option “My Apps” and than select option “Add a New App”

• A pop-up will appear on the screen on the pop-up you need to mention “Display Name”, “Contact Email” and choose suitable “Category”.

• Once you “Create App” you will be redirected to “App Dhashboard”. Please have look on the below screen

• Next important step would be to find the “App ID” and “App Secret”. To find those details just click on the “Dashboard” link below your app name e.g. “NewDemoApp”.

• Next step would be to make your facebook app public to people, so that everyone can use your facebook app. To make the app public just click onto the link “App Review” and enable button located under “Make NewDemoApp public?”

Now you facebook application is ready with v2.8 version.
Conclusion:-

1. Following the above steps you are now familiar with the “http://developers.facebook.com”
2. After reading this article, now you can create your own facebook app with APP ID, App Secret.

Click Here: - How to create facebook access token?