Extend long-term token

[criso]

Extend long-term token

[chrisjhoughton]

Rather than add a new issue on this I thought I'd add to this discussion.

In the Facebook Docs they detail the exchange of temporary access tokens for permanent ones. There is nothing to suggest that a user's access token can be extended in any way.

As a result I got a little confused as to what the extendAccessToken was really doing - it's actually getting a new permanent access token, rather than extending the existing one.

Perhaps a change in method name to reflect this? E.g. getPermanentAccessToken?

Great module btw.

[criso]

That makes sense. Rather than change the name though, we would output a "deprecated" message on the old method, so that it won't break backwards compatibility and properly update the docs.

Not sure when I can get around to doing that, but if someone wants to put a pull request for that, it would be faaaantastic!

[chrisjhoughton]

Happy to do it at some point - give me a week or so!

FYI - this module is forming the backbone of my startup Sauce and it's all working fantastic. Was previously doing things all on the client side which was a heck of a lot slower!

[criso]

Awesome!

[cyrusdavid]

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[SimonEast]

I've been searching everywhere for a way to get a permanent access token for server-side requests to the API, just to fetch a list of public posts from a page. I don't want to have to manually renew it every so often. Did anyone discover a way to do that?

The closest thing I've found is this:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/58878246/195835
...however it requires a long, laborious, manual review process to get a business account with a system user that never expires.

If anyone has a better solution I'd love to hear it.