feature request: programmatic oauth login

[deanmalmgren]

I would like to have a cron job running on our server that automatically pulls in information about Posts on our company's Page to ultimately display on our company's website. Having to pull up a browser every time an access token becomes invalid (if I'm understanding things correctly, these access tokens expire after a certain period of time), is really not an option for me. It would be awesome to have a programmatic oauth login for facebook "apps" that are specifically designed to pull in data from facebook.

[ferrazrafael]

maybe using a headless webkit browser can make it less painful. Look

http://webscraping.com/blog/Scraping-JavaScript-webpages-with-webkit/

[mattia-beta]

You can use the "offline_access" permisson to get an infinite session key. It's like a normal token, but this won't expire. In this way you will be able to do your cron-job without problems.

[ferrazrafael]

isnt offline_acess deprecated?

https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/

[mattia-beta]

It still works. If you get an infinite session key it won't exipire even if it is deprecate.

"Once the migration has been enabled, existing use access_tokens, with the offline_access permission, will continue to work without any change to their expiration time"

[underyx]

Am I doing something wrong here? Because this code opens a new browser window every few hours or so for me.

fbconsole.AUTH_SCOPE = ['offline_access']
fbconsole.authenticate()

[glfafn]

The offline_access was removed at December 5, 2012.You can still get a long-live use access_token which lasts for 60 days, read bellow

https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/ https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/completed-changes/