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How To Use Facebook Graph API - Tleduc

The document provides a 15 step process for obtaining an access token to use the Facebook Graph API to publish posts to a test Facebook page associated with a developer's app. It involves creating an app page and business manager in Facebook, generating a test user access token with appropriate permissions, debugging the token, and using the Graph API Explorer to ultimately retrieve a page access token that can be used to programmatically publish posts to the test page.

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How To Use Facebook Graph API - Tleduc

The document provides a 15 step process for obtaining an access token to use the Facebook Graph API to publish posts to a test Facebook page associated with a developer's app. It involves creating an app page and business manager in Facebook, generating a test user access token with appropriate permissions, debugging the token, and using the Graph API Explorer to ultimately retrieve a page access token that can be used to programmatically publish posts to the test page.

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how to Use Facebook Graph API -

Access Token
by Tleduc

—> Step 1 : Go the Settings of the Facebook App :

—> Step 2 : Create a “App Page”, choose a “Business Page” (left choice) and
following Facebook’s instruction to the page be recognise as part of the App : “the
name of the page should contain the name of the app, and the page must be in the
App Page category”

—> Step 3 : Create a Business Manager assign with the app : follow Facebook
instructions

—> Step 4 : Go to ‘Roles —> Test Users’ :


—> Step 5 : Add a new ‘Test Users’ :
- Enable ‘Authorize Test Users for this App’
- Select ‘v3.0’ (it could automatically change to 3.1 : it doesn’t matters)
- Add ‘Login Permissions’ : ‘manage_pages’, ‘publish_pages’,
‘business_management’ and ‘publish_to_groups’
—> Step 6 : Check the ‘permissions this test user granted’ : you need to have at
least the permissions written previously
—> Step 7 : Get the ‘access token for this test user’, select ‘v3.0’ and copy the
access token given

—> Step 8 :
- Go the Access Token Debuger : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
accesstoken/?
- Put you access token
- Select ‘v3.0’ as the ‘API Version’
- Check the scopes (permission granted), you need to find at the least the
previous ones
- The Expire time of the token is short : click on ‘Extend Access Token’ , write
your password and copy the access token given
—> Step 9 : Go to the Graph Explorer : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/
explorer/

—> Step 10 : Go to ’Get Token’ and ‘Get User Access Token’

—> Step 11 : Select the options


- Select ‘v3.0’
- Select the permissions as followed
- Submit with ‘Get Access Token’

—> Step 12 : Authorize the app to your page, app, etc..


—> Step 13 : Select the ‘Page Access Tokens’ —> Name of your Test Page :
‘Page_App’

—> Step 14 : Activate the premission to publish on the page : select ‘Request
publish_pages’
—> Step 15 : You now have the access token to publish posts on your Test
Page : Go your script to add the token access

Use this simple example :

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import facebook
print('Facebook Version :',facebook.__version__)
print('App Version : 3.0')

test_user_access_token = ""

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token=test_user_access_token)

page_id_test = ""

message = """

"""

# Need :
# - Parent_object : page id
# - connection_name : the wall of the page
# - message : the message you want to send
graph.put_object(parent_object=page_id_test, connection_name="feed",
message=message)

# No need to put the page id, the access token has it inside ?
# graph.put_photo(image=open('img.png', 'rb'), message=message)

print('POST SENT')

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