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Facebook Access Token for Pages

  1. Go to the Graph API Explorer
  2. Choose your app from the dropdown menu
  3. Click "Get Access Token"
  4. Choose the manage_pages permission (you may need the user_events permission too, not sure)
  5. Now access the me/accounts connection and copy your page's access_token
  6. Click on your page's id
  7. Add the page's access_token to the GET fields
  8. Call the connection you want (e.g.: PAGE_ID/events)

See here if you want to grant a Facebook App permanent access to a page (even when you / the app owner are logged out):

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-app-tokens/

"An App Access Token does not expire unless you refresh the application secret through your app settings."

The documentation for this is good if not a little difficult to find.

Facebook Graph API - Page Tokens

After initializing node's fbgraph, you can run:

var facebookAccountID = yourAccountIdHere 

graph
.setOptions(options)
.get(facebookAccountId + "/accounts", function(err, res) {
  console.log(res); 
});

and receive a JSON response with the token you want to grab, located at:

res.data[0].access_token

I was attempting to retrieve the Page access token from Graph API Explorer, but I did not have the option to select the Page.

It turns out that I was not an admin of the page. I was an admin of the Facebook App, and the App had access to the Facebook page, enabling me to access the page as well. This caused the confusion and chaos.

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