AutoTweetNG
How to AutoTweet from Your Own Facebook App
New Facebook Developer Site
http://www.extly.com/how-to-autotweet-from-your-own-facebook-app.html
Presentation based on Joomla 3 and AutoTweetNG 7.4
2014-08-19
How to AutoTweet from your own Facebook App
New Facebook Developers Site
In this presentation, we are going to show how
you can AutoTweet from Joomla to Facebook,
with Your Own Facebook App
Product Page: http://www.extly.com/autotweet-ng-pro.html
Support: http://support.extly.com
Community Forum Support: http://www.extly.com/forum/index.html
Prerequisites
New Facebook Developers Site
○ AutoTweetNG Free or PRO v7 or superior
○ A Facebook account
○ System requirements:
- Joomla 2.5 / Joomla 3, or superior
- PHP 5.3, or superior
- MySQL 5.5 (recommended), or superior
○ Previous tutorial: How to AutoTweet from Joomla in 5
minutes
Add Facebook channel
○ Each Facebook Profile, Page or Group is a different channel.
○ Facebook Channels require the Facebook account
authorization (a long-lived access token).
○ You can share the same token in all Facebook channels.
Add channel / Facebook
○ Assign channel type and data, and select “Use Your Own
App”=Yes
○ Create your App
Create a Facebook App
○ Login at https://developers.facebook.com/apps with your
Facebook username and password
○ Create New App
○ Define App name
Create a Facebook App
Now, you have your own:
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App ID
App Secret
Don’t forget to:
yourdomain.com
● Fill App Domain,
● Add Platform
Create a Facebook App
Now, you have your own:
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App ID
App Secret
Don’t forget to:
● Add Platform
Create a Facebook App
Now, you have your own:
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yourdomain.com
http://www.yourdomain.com
App ID
App Secret
Don’t forget to fill:
● App Domain,
● Contact Email
● Site URL
Create a Facebook App
Now, you have your own:
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App ID
App Secret
Don’t forget to :
● Make it public
Create a Facebook App
Now, you have your own:
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App ID
App Secret
TIP
● Make sure “Stream post URL security” is Off
This setting allows Url Shorteners usage, or a different
domains.
Add channel / Facebook
○ Back to the channel configuration
○ Fill the form: App Id, and App Secret
○ Continue with steps: 2. Authorization and 3. Channel Selection
Add channel / Facebook
○ Step 2: Authorize the App in the Facebook Account
Permissions Changes: In Facebook Login v2.0, they've
made some changes to permissions.
The authorization dialog shows a warning about
requested permissions for final users.
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As you are the main developer of Your Facebook
App, you can just accept publishing actions, and
continue with AutoTweet implementation.
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If you are creating a Facebook Channel for
Community Auto-Posting, to be published in Frontend site and authorized by registered users, check
this slide.
Add channel / Facebook
○ Step 2: Authorize the App in the Facebook Account
Add channel / Facebook
○ After the authorization, the Facebook application provides
the Access Token to validate and fill the User-ID.
Add channel / Facebook
○ Validate the Access token and the User ID will be filled
Add channel / Facebook
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Select the specific Facebook channel (Page, group, or profile)
Validate Channel and Save
Conclusion
We've created Your Own Facebook App to post from
AutoTweetNG; authorized, verified, and created a new Channel.
The Facebook channel is ready to publish.
As you’ve noticed, there’s also an option to create a full
Facebook App with Canvas Page. It requires a SSL-enabled
site to upload Facebook App files.
In the next slides, this option is described.
Create a Facebook App
Canvas Page
○ Now, you have to create the Facebook App mini-site.
E.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/Facebook-App/
○ From AutoTweetNG downloaded zip file, extract the file:
facebook_auth_app.zip
○ Copy the files into a directory (E.g. /Facebook-App) in your
server, to create the Canvas Url and the Secure Canvas Url
For example:
Canvas URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/Facebook-App/
Secure Canvas URL: https://www.yourdomain.com/Facebook-App/
○ Assign the Urls in the Facebook App Configuration,
“App on Facebook” platform.
Create a Facebook App
Canvas Page
○ Once the app is created, go to Add Platform and select
Facebook Canvas
Create a Facebook App
Canvas Page
○ Assign the Canvas Url and the Secure Canvas Url in the
Facebook App Configuration
○ Save changes
Add channel / Facebook
Canvas Page
○ Back to the channel configuration
○ Fill the form: App Id, App Secret, and Canvas Page
○ Continue with steps: 2. Authorization and 3. Channel Selection
Previous tutorial: How to AutoTweet from Joomla in 5 minutes
Add channel / Facebook
Canvas Page
○ Step 2: Authorize the App in the Facebook Account
Add channel / Facebook
Canvas Page
○ After the authorization, copy and paste the Access Token
to validate and fill the User-ID.
Add channel / Facebook
Canvas Page
○ Validate the Access token and the User ID will be filled
Add channel / Facebook
Canvas Page
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Select the specific Facebook channel (Page, group, or profile)
Validate Channel and Save
Conclusion
Canvas Page
You've created Your Own Facebook App, to post from
AutoTweetNG.
○ You can freely customize it
○ Your posts are going to have your brand name
... but wait... there's another alternative, based on Joomla !
If your Joomla site has
SSL support, you can avoid the
additional Facebook App mini-site hosting, creating a Menu item!
Facebook App Menu Item
AutoTweetNG has a menu to create the Facebook App.
Facebook App Menu Item
● Fill App Id, and App Secret, and Canvas Page in the new
menu item.
Facebook App Menu Item
● Verify the new menu
Canvas Url: http://..../index.php?option=com_autotweet&view=facebookapp&Itemid=9999
Secure Canvas: Url https://..../...com_autotweet&view=facebookapp&Itemid=9999
● Assign the new Canvas Url and Secure Canvas Url
● Complete the rest of the steps, as shown in the previous
case
One last word
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improve.
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