I am trying make a post on my apps page wall as if it is coming from the app page (not another user) After researching I seem to find no solution that actually works!
I have tried to follow the documentation here:
I then get my 'access_token_page' by getting it from:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APP_ID&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials
Then using the facebook python api I try:
graph1 = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token_page)
graph1.put_wall_post(fbmessage, attachment, profile_id=APP_PAGE_ID)
However this just returns the following facebook error:
*** GraphAPIError: (#200) The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action
Any ideas on what I am missing? Remember, I am looking to have the App Page make a post to itself, not have a post be generated from another username.
Thank you!
What you had done is using App Access Token to publish to page.
You should using Page Access Token to post on page admin behalf instead. User Access Token is works too but it's a bug as reported at https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/647340981958249, so it's not recommended to use User Access Token by this time of writing.
As documented at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#page_access_tokens:
Page Access Tokens
To perform the following operations as a Page, and not the current
user, you must use the Page's access token, not the user access token
commonly used for reading Graph API objects. This access token can be
retrieved by issuing an HTTP GET to /USER_ID/accounts with the
manage_pages permission.
More info about different type of access token please visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/
Try Django Facebook:
https://github.com/tschellenbach/Django-facebook
This will deal with many of your API problems.
You need the page access token, see here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/
Ask for manage_pages as an extra permission
After getting that setup, simply do:
user_graph = OpenFacebook(user_access_token)
response = user_graph.get('me/accounts')
# turn the response to a dict, and be sure to get the page you want
page_access_token = response['data'][0]['access_token']
graph = OpenFacebook(page_access_token)
graph.set('me/feed', message='helloworld')
You can find more docs here:
http://django-facebook.readthedocs.org/en/latest/open_facebook/api.html
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I'm trying to publish pictures on Facebook events under Facebook pages I own as that owning page using python. I am attempting to do so as the admin of an app.
The best understanding I have of the process (obviously not good enough) is that it is a two step process: 1) get page_token for target page using user_token (have a long-lived one) 2) use page_token to publish content.
Something like this:
def getFbGraph(accessToken=user_token):
return facebook.GraphAPI(access_token=accessToken)
page_token = getFbGraph().get_object(pageID, fields=['access_token'])
getFbGraph(page_token).put_object(parent_object=eventID, connection_name='photos', message='This is my caption', url=imgUrl)
That gets me the following error message:
facebook.GraphAPIError: Invalid OAuth access token
If instead I try to put the photo as a user (i.e. without the pageToken) I get the following message:
facebook.GraphAPIError: (#200) Requires extended permission: publish_actions
Is there no way for the admin of a page and an app to programmatically post allowed content? I don't need other FB users to be doing that (hence need to go through the publish_actions permissions) and I own all the pages I'm posting to.
Many thanks in advance for your comments.
I am trying to integrate Todoist to Gnome-Todo. I was implementing the OAuth but I'm stuck at the second step after the user grants the access the redirected url doesn't seem to contain the code which needs to be exchanged for access token.
At this page I give grant the access:
http://imgur.com/a/76Qgd
After this i am redirected to this page but the url doesn't contain any parameter named code which I need to exchange to get the access token. I also don't know what this ei is? Any ideas?
The URL doesn't contain code because the browser is at your configured redirect_url. Browser will be redirected to your configured redirect_url after user log into your app and grant the permission.
I am using web server flow for oAuth and simple-salesforce REST api to login the user using the access token and instance url. I have gone through the http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/index.htm documentation and coudn't find anything on it.
Based on your comment saying you're using https://github.com/neworganizing/salesforce-oauth2 : you can do something like :
import urllib
# After you get the code
response = salesforce_oauth_2.get_token(code)
print urllib.urlopen(response['id'])
The json object response returned by get_token should contain an id attribute which is an url that you can query for more information about the current user. See here for more details (paragraph 5).
Get your salesforce dev to write a simple method that when pinged returns the context user details that you're after. See here for an example.
I installed Django Facebook and I am using this method to post to a Page:
from open_facebook.api import OpenFacebook
graph = OpenFacebook("my_access_token")
graph.set('me/feed', message='hello world')
It's working on my local dev machine when I am logged in to my Facebook account. It stops working as soon as I sign out and I get this message:
OAuthException: Error validating access token: The session is invalid because the user logged out. (error code 190)
I got my access token from Graph API Explorer by passing /me/accounts
So the question, how do I make my code work on production when of course I'll not be logged in?
Please note that I'll only be posting to a Page that I own.
If you want to use 'me/feed' offline;
You can use the APP Access Token, once you've authorized the app and call USER_ID/feed to post.
Note: use user_id instead of me- me is only used when a user is in session, but you want to do the action after logout.
To get the app access token,
GET /oauth/access_token?
client_id={app-id}
&client_secret={app-secret}
&grant_type=client_credentials
I've been working on using python to get access to Facebook insights information. I was able to get public information (e.g. 'likes' from cocacola's page) in addition to app insights for apps that I have developed.
Because I am the admin and developer for both pages and apps, when I go to facebook.com/insights I will see a section for pages and a section for apps. I want to be able to get insights for both from the graph api and store them on my personal database. Getting the app insights were not difficult. I obtained my app_id and app_secret when I created my app and then followed the process under App Login at this page http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/. This gave me an app access_token which I could use to get app insights.
When attempting to do the same for pages, I have had more trouble. As many previous posts have mentioned, most of the facebook documentation has to do with a facebook app getting an access_token to manage or read insights from a page. I understand that this is useful for apps that interact with a user's page. However, my instinct says that I should be able to get an access token with read_insights for a page that I am the administrator of without having to go through an external app.
The only way that I've been able to read the insights for my page has been using the Graph Api Explorer. I used the Explorer to obtain an access_token (through the access_token button, allowing the Explorer to access my personal data and requested manage_pages and read_insight extended permision). Then I followed the instructions under Page Login at the /docs/authentication/ page that I posted above, to get an access_token for the facebook page I administer. Then I could finally run https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/insights?access_token=RETRIEVED_TOKEN. However, this is an incredibly cumbersome way of finding the access_token. Is there a way to get this token that is less cumbersome? Thanks for your help. I've been struggling with this for quite a while.
I've also included the code that I used to get the access token for my app.
def get_access_token():
args = dict(client_id=FACEBOOK_APP_ID, client_secret=FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET, grant_type="client_credentials" )
url = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?" + urllib.urlencode(args)
response = urlparse.parse_qs(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
access_token = response['access_token'][0]
return access_token
Why not using classic way:
Create an app and login to it using facebook (JS SDK for example), with the offline_access and read_insights permission.
The offline_access will give you a permanent access_token that you can use to access the insights anytime you want.
The JS SDK (method FB.login) will return an object, containing the access_token you need.