· CONNECT · META ·

Connect Meta (Facebook + Instagram)

About 10 minutes. You'll create a Meta developer app, grant page + instagram permissions, and paste a permanent page token.

Quick path: if you've already set up a Meta app for any marketing tool, you can reuse its app ID + secret — just add a new OAuth redirect.

Step 1 — Create a Meta Developer app

  1. Go to developers.facebook.com/apps → Create App
  2. Use case: Other → Type: Business
  3. Name: Liege Marketing → Contact email → pick your Business portfolio (Golden Maple, etc.)

Step 2 — Add Facebook Login product

  1. Left sidebar → Add product → Facebook Login
  2. Settings → Valid OAuth Redirect URIs → add https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html
  3. Save

Step 3 — Add your domain

Basic Settings → App Domains → add facebook.com. This allows the Graph Explorer redirect.

Step 4 — Grab app credentials

App Settings → Basic. Copy the App ID. Click Show on App Secret and copy that too (needs your FB password).

Step 5 — Generate a short-lived token

  1. Graph API Explorer
  2. Meta App: your app name
  3. User or Page: User Token
  4. Add permissions: pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement, pages_manage_posts, pages_manage_metadata, instagram_basic, instagram_content_publish, business_management
  5. Click Generate Access Token → Choose account → Approve all scopes → Select your Business portfolio
  6. Copy the resulting token (starts with EAA)

Step 6 — Exchange for a permanent page token

setx META_APP_ID "<your-app-id>"
setx META_APP_SECRET "<your-app-secret>"

cd skills/meta-toolkit
node meta.js refresh "<the-short-lived-token-you-just-copied>"

This exchanges the short-lived token for a 60-day user token, then pulls a permanent page token (never expires until revoked). All three tokens save to credentials/.env and Windows env vars.

Verify

node meta.js status
node meta.js verify

You should see your FB Page + IG Business account with follower counts.

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