Facebook Page Access Tokens - Do these expire?

Question

I\'m building an app that allows users to administrate their Facebook Fan Pages. This requires the following two Access Tokens:

1. A User Access Token
2. A

Answer 1

Facebook page access token is very similar to User access token except that "it impersonates the user" as the admin of the page and allows to manage it [manage_page permission is required].

If Offline_access permission is granted to the app the page access_token WILL NOT expire (unless the user changes their password or manually deauthorises the app)

Use the following link to check the details of an issued access token.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

Answer 2

Page Tokens expire when the access token expires for the user that the page token was generated from. Edit 6.28.2013: If you extend the user access token and obtain a new page access token for the user, that page token will not expire unless the user de-authorizes your app.

Offline access has now been deprecated, but you are allowed to extend an access token to last for 60 days. If you extend the user's access token, then the page tokens generated from that user account will also have their expiration extended to match will not expire (edited 6.28.2013). The value for the page tokens may change after being extended, so be sure to grab new page tokens from the user's /accounts graph connection after extending the user token.

You can continue to extend these access tokens once per day. So you should regenerate the access tokens each day that the user interacts with your app.

See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/#pagetokens https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/#extending https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/
https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/ https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2011/05/13/how-to--handle-expired-access-tokens/