topic Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector) in QlikView

Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

ralph_graham — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:50:19 GMT

Hello,

I have been able to connect and extract some key information from my Facebook account using the Qlik REST API Connector, however an issue I am stuck with is in relation to the access token. It expires after a certain amount of time and I was wondering if anyone has implemented a method of generating a new token per Qlik extact?

Thanks,

Ralph

Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 14:08:36 GMT

There is nothing we can do here. This is something related Facebook API. They have made tokens such that they expire. We have to manually renew them and use it in qlik.

Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

ralph_graham — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 14:11:09 GMT

Yes, I was just hoping at the time that someone else had come across this.However I have now resolved this so no longer an issue.

Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:23:36 GMT

Could you tell me how did you resolve this?

Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

ralph_graham — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:26:13 GMT

I followed the below article step by step and it worked fine, this was actually used for a Facebook Page so it might be a bit different for non page accounts.

https://www.rocketmarketinginc.com/blog/get-never-expiring-facebook-page-access-token/

Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:37:18 GMT

I would like doing it on my facebook profile. Hope it works.

Re: Facebook Refresh Token (REST API Connector)

ralph_graham — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:38:48 GMT

I've tried it on my own profile and can it a token that doesn't expire for 2 months following the same steps but not the token that never refreshes.