facebook-refresh-token v1.0.0

facebook-refresh-token

npm install -g facebook-refresh-token

Configuration

{
  "server": {
    "protocol": "http",
    "host": "dummy.com",
    "port": 3000
  },
  "app": {
    "key": "",
    "secret": "",
    "scope": []
  },
  "browser": {
    "cookie": ""
  }
}

1. Make sure you are logged in with your primary Facebook account that you are using regularly (this module relies on your browser cookie)
2. Create new OAuth application on developers.facebook.com
3. Set the app's Site URL to http://dummy.com:3000 (or whatever else you want)
4. Add 127.0.0.1 dummy.com to your hosts file
5. Create config.json file and copy/paste the above configuration data structure in it
6. Configure the server

• protocol, host and port should be the same as in your app's Site URL
• key App ID
• secret App Secret
• scope optionally set scopes required by your app

7. Start the server

• facebook-refresh-token --config config.json --connect

8. Navigate to http://dummy.com:3000 in your browser
9. Open up the Developer Tools and select the Network tab, make sure Preserve log is checked
10. Navigate to http://dummy.com:3000/connect/facebook and authenticate as usual
11. Take a look at the authorization request in the Network tab and copy the request's cookie header value to the above configuration

Refresh

Every time you want to update your access token execute

facebook-refresh-token --config config.json --refresh

The refreshed access token is logged out to the console. This makes it easy for spawning this script using node or external daemon tool on certain interval of time.

For example you can configure the cron daemon to refresh your access token at 12:00AM on the first of every month

0 0 1 * * facebook-refresh-token --config config.json --refresh > access_token

Reconnect

Keep in mind that if you ever log out manually or due to prolonged inactivity of your Facebook account your cookie will be lost

In this case execute steps 7 to 11 from the above configuration steps