I am trying to loading a facebook feed from my webpage using:

For this I got an access token from the Graph Explorer. The problem is that the token keeps running out:

Error validating access token: Session has expired at unix time ...

I know I could create a OAuth login to get a new token but I would like to show the feed on a webpage. I don't want to OAuth all visitors of the page. How do I get an constant access token for my site feed?

I am trying to loading a facebook feed from my webpage using:

https://graph.facebook./177610425663218/feed

For this I got an access token from the Graph Explorer. The problem is that the token keeps running out:

Error validating access token: Session has expired at unix time ...

I know I could create a OAuth login to get a new token but I would like to show the feed on a webpage. I don't want to OAuth all visitors of the page. How do I get an constant access token for my site feed?

• php
• javascript
• jquery
• facebook
• facebook-graph-api

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You can easily get an access token. Just create an app and login using app_id and app_secret:

$response = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook./oauth/access_token?type=client_cred&client_id=some_app_id&client_secret=the_appsecret');
$token = str_replace('access_token=', '', $response);

Works for me.

I don't think you can, it looks like they are deprecating the offline_access permission. Further down in the page it mentions extending the current token by 60 days. Perhaps that may help?

Check out my post from a couple of days ago (look at me Updated section in the original post).

Displaying Facebook posts to non-Facebook users

Because the offline_access permission is being deprecated, you're going to have to programmatically swap out your token periodically (which does not require reauthorization). Hope that helps.