How long are Facebook access tokens valid for?
about 60 days
When your app uses Facebook Login to authenticate someone, it receives a User access token. If your app uses one of the Facebook SDKs, this token lasts for about 60 days. However, the SDKs automatically refresh the token whenever the person uses your app, so the tokens expire 60 days after last use.
How long should access tokens live?
By default, access tokens are valid for 60 days and programmatic refresh tokens are valid for a year. The member must reauthorize your application when refresh tokens expire.
How do I get a Facebook access token for my App?
Press Create App ID and enter the capture into the capture field. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer and replace Graph API Expolrer with the app you’ve created. Press Get Token and select Get User Access Token. Check the required options on the popup window and choose the permissions needed for your app.
How are Facebook access tokens stored over time?
Expect that the length of all access token types will change over time as Facebook makes changes to what is stored in them and how they are encoded. You can expect that they will grow and shrink over time. Please use a variable length data type without a specific maximum size to store access tokens.
Is it safe to store authentication tokens on a website?
In each case, you have to trust that browsers are implemented correctly, and that Website A can’t somehow access the authentication information for Website B. In that sense, both storage mechanisms are equally secure. Problems can arise in terms of how you use them though.
How to get Facebook access token in elfsight?
In order to work with Elfsight Facebook Feed, you need to check the following ones: Press Get Access Token. Confirm all the requests. Click Info icon next to the token. Press Open in Access Token Tool. Press Extend Access Token.