-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 250
How to get started with RFacebook
Miguel Tokumoto edited this page Aug 25, 2016
·
2 revisions
This small guide will guide you through the process of getting a Facebook App and proceeding to obtain a token with R.
Required packages: RFacebook
, httr
Disclaimer: This guide works with httr
(1.2.1) and RFacebook
(0.6.6). The following steps might change due to Facebook UI/UX changes in the future. This guide follows @darogzic's guide for the fbRads package.
- Go to http://developers.facebook.com and Add a New App from the menu on the upper right corner menu.
- Choose the basic setup.
- Put a Display Name (ie: rfacebook_experiment_1), put real Contact Email and choose the Business category for your app.
- Once in the app dashboard, you will see your App ID and App Secret, you will need those so I recommend you copy them and paste them into your code (declare them a variables). In the App Domains field, type in
localhost
. - Go to Settings > Add Platform > Website and type in Site URL: http://localhost/1410
- On the left hand menu, go to Facebook Login and in the Valid OAuth redirect URIs field type http://localhost:1410/
Paste the following code:
library(httr)
oauth_endpoints("facebook")
AppID <- "Your app ID"
AppSecret <- "Your app secret"
app <- oauth_app('facebook', AppID, AppSecret)
fb_token <- oauth2.0_token(oauth_endpoints("facebook"), app,
scope = "read_insights",
type = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
cache = FALSE)
# This saves the token for future use without having to login everytime you want to use the package
save(fb_token, file = "~/Documents/fb_token")
Now you can call you token from other scripts:
load(~/Documents/fb_token)
And you're ready to go!
Remember, the functions on the package will ask for fb_token$credentials$token
as the argument it needs to run. It'd be wise to declare it as a separate variable!