Can we access Facebook Graph API via script

Question

I'm trying to create a simple script (node) that each day collects information from various APIs, including Facebook's Graph API.

The idea is simple, each day I want to collect the total friend count of my personal account, total page likes of my managed pages, total social interactions of my content (personal and from pages).

Now, if I was doing this in a web app, the normal route would be using facebook login to request the access tokens for my profile and pages, but since this is a script it does not have a public exposed url to return the authentication to.

Does anyone know of a way to manually get the tokens, to use in a scenario like this?

Thanks

You can manually create tokens in Graph API Explorer.

C3roe
– C3roe

2016-07-06 11:13:01 +00:00
Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 11:13 — C3roe
– C3roe, Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 11:13

Philip O'Brien · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-06 11:07:31Z

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Have you tried to use this node package?

If you get an accesstoken via some other Oauth module like everyauth , connect-auth or node-oauth you can just set the access token directly. Most get calls, and pretty much all post calls will require an access_token

There is also a decent article on Medium which works through this process.

answered Jul 6, 2016 at 11:07

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Ricardo Gomes Over a year ago

I've looked at that package, but since this is to be run as a simple script I don't have a URL I can give facebook's API to return after the authentication.

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