Hi,

I'm writing a blogpost about the Facebook-Albums-Package.

When I try to get photos from my personal facebook account, I need an access token as described here:

http://docs.composite.net/Packages/CompositeMediaPackages/Facebook-Albums

Everything works fine, until I log out from facebook.

Then I get the following error:

 (OAuthException) Error validating access token: The session is invalid because the user logged out.

Thorsten 

Hello,

The issue was investigated.

Recently Facebook's disabled the use of "offline access permissions" by default so now you need another step to explicitly enable these permissions - http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/

We updated our document and described additional step:

2.  Edit the advanced settings of the app and disable removing offline access permissions (YOUR_APP > Edit Settings > Advanced > Migrations > Remove offline_access permission > Disable).

3. ...

http://docs.composite.net/Packages/CompositeMediaPackages/Facebook-Albums

Oh my, it looks like the offline_access permission has been removed, which were necessary to use the token even when you're not logged in to Facebook :(

https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/

The docs-page should be updated to include the now necessary "Deprecate offline access" setting, which should give you a token which is valid for 60 days. Its only like peeing in your pants though, since this token would need to be renewed every 60 days by re-authorizing the app. I would have to look into a more permanent solution.

Hi Inna and Pauli,

thanks for your quick reply and the explanation of the problem - so I will write my blogpost about using the package with public facebook sites without this token - the need to use an accesstoken is only for pictures from personal profiles, which is not the most common usage of this package for the most people.


Thorsten