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Python Social Media Analytics
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Python Social Media Analytics

by Siddhartha Chatterjee, Michal Krystyanczuk
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating an app and getting an access token

We show the following procedure to get access tokens that never expire.

  1. Go to the website: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/.
  2. Create an application.
  3. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer.
  4. Select your application from the Graph API Explorer drop-down menu.
  5. Click on the Get Access Token button.
  6. Select permissions from the form.
  7. In the Access token input field click on the blue exclamation point icon. It will open a pop-up window.
  8. In the pop-up window, click on Open in Access Token Tool. You will see token details. At this stage the token is valid for around one hour.
  9. Click on the Extend Access Token button to get a token that will never expire.

You can save the token and use it ...

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ISBN: 9781787121485