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    <p>I'm aware that there are many questions about Facebook access-tokens and the grief they cause, but despite much experimentation and reading many frustratingly vague blog articles (FB and otherwise), I'm still struggling to get a clear answer to my needs. Let me succinctly break down my process so far:</p> <ul> <li>I am creating a site that, server-side, needs to pull the posts/statuses from a single Facebook Page</li> <li>I am an admin of that Facebook Page</li> <li>I have created a Facebook App</li> <li>Using the <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/" rel="noreferrer">Facebook Graph API Explorer</a>, I've generated a short-lived key, connected to my app and my account, that grants permission to my account to view the access-tokens for my pages</li> <li>I've converted my short-lived key to a long-lived key (60 days) ala scenario 4 from <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/" rel="noreferrer">this</a></li> </ul> <p>And here's where I am stuck. My 60 day key works fine for my server to pull the info needed from the page, but as far I can tell, there's no way to programmatically extend that 60 day key. I also do not know of a way to generate a new short-lived key without manually going to the Facebook Graph API Explorer and creating one.</p> <p>Since it is my server making the requests to the Facebook API and not a user-based system (where I could easily request that a user authorize the Facebook app again), this creates a very clunky system. Since Facebook deprecated <code>offline_access</code>, is there really no permanent way to have my server pull info from my own page? Will I really have to create a new key by hand and manually update my server with it every 60 days?</p> <p>Or is there something I'm missing?</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><em>The step-by-step guide that was previously found here has been migrated down into its own <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/21927690/506338">answer</a>.</em></p> </blockquote>
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    1. COThis is awesome. I'm in the same situation and was looking for some info on this topic. Is it safe that this token doesn't break any FB platform policies? Just asking to be sure.
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    2. CO@asrijaal Facebook's own [documentation](https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/) (take a look at Scenario 5) says that these page access tokens do not expire. I'd say it's safe to assume that they comply with Facebook's policies.
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    3. CO"I thought it'd be good to leave a clear step-by-step process" - heaven forbid :) Thanks @redhotvengeance
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