I need to be able to post to a user’s business page using the Facebook Javascript SDK.
I have successfully logged my user’s into facebook but when I try to use a function to post to the user’s page, nothing happens. I have even tried to manually enter my own page id into the function to make it work but still nothing happens.
I log my user in using the following javascript which I got from the Facebook documentation and it works.
<script>
// This is called with the results from from FB.getLoginStatus().
function statusChangeCallback(response) {
console.log('statusChangeCallback');
console.log(response);
// The response object is returned with a status field that lets the
// app know the current login status of the person.
// Full docs on the response object can be found in the documentation
// for FB.getLoginStatus().
if (response.status === 'connected') {
// Logged into your app and Facebook.
testAPI();
} else {
// The person is not logged into your app or we are unable to tell.
document.getElementById('status').innerHTML = 'Please log ' +
'into this app.';
}
}
// This function is called when someone finishes with the Login
// Button. See the onlogin handler attached to it in the sample
// code below.
function checkLoginState() {
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
statusChangeCallback(response);
});
}
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'my app id',
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access
// the session
xfbml : true, // parse social plugins on this page
version : 'v3.3' // The Graph API version to use for the call
});
// Now that we've initialized the JavaScript SDK, we call
// FB.getLoginStatus(). This function gets the state of the
// person visiting this page and can return one of three states to
// the callback you provide. They can be:
//
// 1. Logged into your app ('connected')
// 2. Logged into Facebook, but not your app ('not_authorized')
// 3. Not logged into Facebook and can't tell if they are logged into
// your app or not.
//
// These three cases are handled in the callback function.
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
statusChangeCallback(response);
});
};
// Load the SDK asynchronously
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
// Here we run a very simple test of the Graph API after login is
// successful. See statusChangeCallback() for when this call is made.
function testAPI() {
console.log('Welcome! Fetching your information.... ');
FB.api('/me', function(response) {
console.log('Successful login for: ' + response.name);
document.getElementById('status').innerHTML =
'Thanks for logging in, ' + response.name + '!';
});
}
</script>
I then altered the code to add a function called postapi() to test a post to the logged in user’s page as shown below:
<script>
function postapi() {
FB.api(
'/{your-page-id}/feed',
'POST',
{ "message": "Awesome!" },
function (response) {
// Insert your code here
});
}
// This is called with the results from from FB.getLoginStatus().
function statusChangeCallback(response) {
console.log('statusChangeCallback');
console.log(response);
// The response object is returned with a status field that lets the
// app know the current login status of the person.
// Full docs on the response object can be found in the documentation
// for FB.getLoginStatus().
if (response.status === 'connected') {
// Logged into your app and Facebook.
testAPI();
} else {
// The person is not logged into your app or we are unable to tell.
document.getElementById('status').innerHTML = 'Please log ' +
'into this app.';
}
}
// This function is called when someone finishes with the Login
// Button. See the onlogin handler attached to it in the sample
// code below.
function checkLoginState() {
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
statusChangeCallback(response);
});
}
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'my app id',
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access
// the session
xfbml : true, // parse social plugins on this page
version : 'v3.3' // The Graph API version to use for the call
});
// Now that we've initialized the JavaScript SDK, we call
// FB.getLoginStatus(). This function gets the state of the
// person visiting this page and can return one of three states to
// the callback you provide. They can be:
//
// 1. Logged into your app ('connected')
// 2. Logged into Facebook, but not your app ('not_authorized')
// 3. Not logged into Facebook and can't tell if they are logged into
// your app or not.
//
// These three cases are handled in the callback function.
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
statusChangeCallback(response);
});
};
// Load the SDK asynchronously
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
// Here we run a very simple test of the Graph API after login is
// successful. See statusChangeCallback() for when this call is made.
function testAPI() {
console.log('Welcome! Fetching your information.... ');
FB.api('/me', function(response) {
console.log('Successful login for: ' + response.name);
document.getElementById('status').innerHTML =
'Thanks for logging in, ' + response.name + '!';
});
}
</script>
I then use a button to open the login dialog and request the proper permissions as follows:
<fb:login-button scope="manage_pages,publish_pages,pages_show_list" onlogin="checkLoginState();">
</fb:login-button>
I successfully tested to see if this actually stored the user’s access token by displaying the user access token in a textbox as follows:
function placetoken() {
var user_access_token = FB.getAuthResponse()['accessToken'];
document.getElementById("<%=TextBox1.ClientID%>").value=user_access_token;
}
I now need to be able to use the user access token to get a list of the pages (including page id and page access token) that the user manages so they can choose one to post to.
I have tried:
var user_pages=FB.api('/me/accounts', 'GET');
But I cannot figure out how to capture what the api returns.
I would like to be able to use the Facebook Javascript SDK to log user’s in and post to their business pages.
2
Answers
Publishing on a page feed requires a page token valid for that specific page incl all required permissions granted by a page admin. Therefore you first need to retrieve a manage_pages permission with login, request a page token (via /me/accounts for example) for that specific page and then make the actual publish feed call.
In order to publish to a Page (as a Page, which is the only option), you need to to the following:
manage_pages
andpublish_pages
permissions./page-id?fields=access_token
/me/feed
Example Request with Page Token:
Be aware that only users with a role in the App would see the new post, unless you put your App live and get the required permissions reviewed by Facebook.