I get data from the Facebook insights via Facebook Graph API more than year. And recently started all my requests (like {id}/insights
) to return with an error:
manage_pages,read_insights
This will give a user access_token
, that u can use to manage pages & check insights,
But a page token became required for any /insights
endpoint since 5th feb 2018
Use your manage_pages
scope & user_token
to get a Page access token
Send a get request to this endpoint
GET /{page-id}?fields=access_token
Output
{
"access_token": "{your-page-access-token}",
"id": "{page-id}"
}
You can use the returned access token to call /insights
endpoint now.
As I cant add comment I'll write it here.
Field name is access_token
which you can check here with your page id.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=page-id%3Ffields%3Daccess_token&version=v2.12
If you had your script in PHP, using Facebook SDK for PHP and now it brokes, you just need to retrieve token and pass it instead of access/refresh token you were using.
//Retrieve new 'page access token'.
$token = $fbApiClient -> get( "/{$pageId}?fields=access_token") -> getGraphNode()-> asArray();
//$q is your insights query which was working until now :(
//But with page acces token it will work again.
$response = $fbApiClient -> get( $q, $token['access_token']) -> getGraphEdge();
//(...) rest of script.
I think its easily adaptable to other languages too. Also you can (and propably should) store page access token and use it wherever you need, instead of retrieving it each time.