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Asked: 2026-06-18T10:05:30+00:00

I want my application to post to a single, pre-defined user’s wall something like

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I want my application to post to a single, pre-defined user’s wall something like “We just posted a new blog at [URL]” with no client-side interaction.

But every answer I can find on this topic seems to hinge on getting an access token through

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token

Which gives you some redirect url through which a user has to log in manually.

I’ve got near zero experience with Facebook. Is it possible to automatically get an access token for a predefined user? Am I doing it wrong? 😉

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t.

    Facebook doesn’t give you a way to automatically get an access token for a user. That user needs to log into Facebook and explicitly give your app permission. The best you can get is a long-lived access token that remains valid for up to 60 days.

    Getting that token requires a two step process:

    1) Logging into Facebook using either the JavaScript API or redirecting the user to a valid Facebook login URL.
    2) Retrieving the short-lived access token you got in step 1 for a long-lived access token.

    Once you’ve got that access token, should your post fail, you know you need to re-authenticate the user and get a new long-lived access token. Your user needs to be online and logged into Facebook for this to work, though it can happen without their interaction.

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