Obtaining a Facebook auth token for a command-line (desktop) application

Question

I am working for a charity which is promoting sign language, and they want to post a video to their FB page every day. There\'s a large (and growing) number of videos, so th

Answer 1

as far as I recall, what you want isn't really possible without some kind of endpoint that can receive a callback from facebook.

If you can finagle an oauth token, from say the Graph API Explorer, then it becomes pretty trivial to use a gem like koala to upload your video.

here's the salient bit:

@graph = Koala::Facebook::API.new(access_token)
@graph.put_video(path_to_my_video)

I've made you a sample project here: fb-upload-example