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Posting to Facebook fan page wall as an admin using Facebook API

I know, I know. This is a blog about Open Technologies and Open Web and I am writing about Facebook. Shame on me :)
It’s a little bit tricky and I’ve lost 3 hours to resolve it and that’s the reason to post it here

Here is the solution.:

1. If you are reading this, probably you have Application setup-ed already in Facebook;
2. Add your application to your Page;
3. Run this link in your Browser. Please replace ~URL~ with your connect URL (Facebook Application dialog) and ~APPID~ with your application ID

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?type=user_agent&client_id=~APPID~&redirect_uri=~URL~&scope=publish_stream,offline_access,manage_pages

4. This URL will return to you a URL parameter access_token.
5. Save the token somewhere;
6. Load This URL. Replace ~TOKEN~ with the token received from Facebook at point 4.;

https://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts?access_token=~TOKEN~

7. As a result you will get the json with all your pages and all access tokens. Save them somewhere;

{
         "name": "Electronic Frontier Bulgaria",
         "category": "Websites",
         "id": "29469045921",
         "access_token": "some secret string."
      },

8. Use FB js SDK to update your page. Replace ~PAGE_AUTH~ with access_token from the previous point. (some secret string)

var wallPost = {
    access_token: "~PAGE_AUTH~",
    message: 'Talkweb.eu is the best :)'
};

FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', wallPost, function(response) {
    if (!response || response.error) {
        alert('Error occurred');
    } else {
        alert('Success!');
    }
});

9. Check the page to see the result;
10. Bye me a beer or hire me :)

If you have any questions, please let me know!

13 Comments

  2. can you explain what you mean by, “connect URL (Facebook Application dialog) ” in step 3? I am having trouble getting past this point…

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  7. Thank you for sharing this information since Facebook API is really vague. It worked for my application for around a week, and suddenly it stopped working 2 days ago. Every time i try to publish on my page’s wall, it posts that on my own wall. I don’t know, does it have to do with the access token?

    Plz let me kno

    Reply

  8. Hi,

    I’ve followed all the steps and now my APP is posting on my PAGE WALL.

    BUT

    If I check the post it says something like “2 hours ago via APP_NAME”

    So the post has been posted VIA THE APP and NOT AS if I manually use the form …

    So am I doing wrong?

    Can you help me, please?

    Thanks!

    Marco

    Reply

  10. Hey using this code can i post to the facebook page without app details? I want to post to facebook page from php like admin post

    Reply

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