{"id":3262,"date":"2023-03-11T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whatso.net\/blog\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:44:42","slug":"how-to-generate-a-long-term-access-token-on-meta-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/how-to-generate-a-long-term-access-token-on-meta-page\/","title":{"rendered":"How to generate a long-term access token on meta page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to the Facebook Developer website and log in to your account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After you login, you will come across this screen, here just click on the app which you have created as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3274 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picture1-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"486\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you click on the app, you will be redirected to the next screen, here just click on the &#8220;WhatsApp&#8221; and than on the &#8220;Getting Started&#8221;, in order to get the temporary access token. Just copy the temporary access token as shown below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3275 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picture2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"558\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to Facebook&#8217;s Access Token Tool by clicking on the &#8220;Access Token Tool&#8221; link in the &#8220;Useful Links&#8221; section on the right side of the screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3276 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picture3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"607\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paste the short-lived access token in the &#8220;Access Token&#8221; field and click &#8220;Debug&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Picture4-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the &#8220;Access Token Debugger&#8221; page that appears, click on the &#8220;Extend Access Token&#8221; button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3267 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Picture5-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Step : 7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Copy the new long-lived access token that appears in the &#8220;Access Token&#8221; field. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that the long-lived access token will expire after 60 days of inactivity or if the user changes their password. It will also expire if the user revokes the app&#8217;s permissions. In such cases, you will need to generate a new long-lived access token following the same steps.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step : 1 Go to the Facebook Developer website and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to generate a long-term access token on meta page?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/how-to-generate-a-long-term-access-token-on-meta-page\/#more-3262\" aria-label=\"More on How to generate a long-term access token on meta page?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook-cloud-api-setup","category-help-guide-articles","category-how-to","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growby.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}