Extending expiry date of facebook access token in graph api beyond 2 months

Question

I am working on facebook page wallpost automation using python

I have automated posting on a fb page that i own by using facebook graph api post So i do this by sending a HTTP POST request to https://graph.facebook.com/mypagename/feed

with access_token and message as POST paramaters

I generate the access token by using graph api explorer by selecting my app that i am using and giving it permission to manage my pages

Intitially the access_token use to expire in 2 hours

To extend the expiry date to 2 months i send HTTP GET request to this url

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=my_app_id&client_secret=my_app_secret&grant_type=fb_exchange_token&fb_exchange_token=old_access_token

the response is a json string with new access_token and expiry time in seconds

the expiry time of new access token is now 60 days.

Now is it possible to extend expiry time beyond 60 days??

Answer 1

You can use following api from facebook to refresh token life to 60 days and just when the token is about to expire, call the same api again with-in 60 days to refresh its life back to 60 days from that point of time Token expire is present in expires parameter and its value is in seconds

Replace CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET with their actual value

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=&client_secret=&grant_type=fb_exchange_token&fb_exchange_token=

in ACCESS_TOKEN, put the actual token value without appending "access_token="