Meta API Setup

Meta API Setup

App Creation

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and click "Create App"

Select "I don't want to connect a business portfolio yet" and click "Next"

Select "Other" and click "Next"

Select "Business" and click "Next"

Give your app a name, add a public contact email and click "Create App"

Login Functionality

Scroll to the bottom of the page where you will find "Facebook Login for Business", click "Set up"

Scroll down until you find "Valid OAuth Redirect URIs". Here you will want to put https://localhost/callback/facebook replacing "localhost" with your domain. Next, click "Save changes"

Configuration for Posting to Facebook Pages

In the bottom left under "Facebook Login for Business", click "Configurations". Next, click "Create configuration"

Give your configuration a name. I would suggest using the name "pages" or similar, as this configuration will be used for facebook page posting

For the login variation, choose "General" and click "Next"

For access token choose "User access token" and click "Next"

You will need to give the app the following 5 permissions in order for OpenSMM to function properly:
```
  - pages_manage_engagement
  - pages_manage_posts
  - pages_read_engagement
  - pages_show_list
  - publish_video
```
Finish by clicking "Create"

You will now be shown your configuration ID. Copy this ID to your .env file then click "Got it"

General API Settings

On the left under "App settings" click "Basic". From here you will need to copy your "App ID" and "App Secret" to your .env file as well

On the left under "App settings click "Advanced". We want to ensure that our API version is upgraded to "v20.0"

That's it for now. You can now use all of the Facebook features in OpenSMM!