Continuously "couldn't authenticate"

[nick-bull]

Sanity warning: this is probably an issue with how I'm producing access tokens, rather than the API.

I have attempted to use an access token (created by https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ and checking every single permission, outputting something that looks like: CAACEdE ... dCqIkf6krQECVGfaOsPqBk), and the ID provided by the GET > /v2.5/me?fields=id,name (looking similar to the format 10153 ... 52316).

However, the example to like 5 users always returns the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "like_5_users.py", line 6, in <module>
session = pynder.Session(FBID, FBTOKEN)
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pynder/session.py", line 14, in __init__
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pynder/api.py", line 26, in auth
pynder.errors.RequestError: Couldn't authenticate

Is there a way to create these tokens automatically, so that newbies like me can't bugger it up? If not, what's the process to create a token and ID that works?

[charliewolf]

Sanity check: Can you try generating a token using the method outlined here?

[nick-bull]

It worked! Weirdly, that was the first method I'd tried, thanks Charlie :)

[nick-bull]

Is there any way to refresh the token once it's expired?

[charliewolf]

Do the same thing again would be one way.
@JoelOtter had a a way to get a longer lasting token here

[nick-bull]

Perfect, the token works for much longer than 2 hours now - 60 days is how long the aforementioned post suggests. This is long enough to suitably be updated manually. Thanks for all your help!

[afeezaziz]

Managed to get extended token, used facepy to get FB id but after that still couldn't authenticate.

graph = facepy.GraphAPI(user.access_token)
fb_user_id = graph.get('me')['id']
print fb_user_id


session = pynder.Session(str(fb_user_id), str(user.access_token))
potential_matches = session._api.recs()['results']
print potential_matches

I also tried with and without the str.

[afeezaziz]

Sorry my fault, you can get extended access token if we have Tinder's secret et cetera. Following DJ Khaled's advice now. 👍