Facebook recommendations

Range Trust reads your Facebook Page's recommendations through the Graph API with a Page access token you control.

What you need

  • Your Page ID: the numeric ID from your Page's About section (or facebook.com/your-page/about_profile_transparency).
  • A long-lived Page access token with the pages_read_user_content permission. The usual route: create an app at developers.facebook.com, grant yourself a user token with pages_read_user_content in the Graph API Explorer, exchange it for a long-lived token, then fetch the Page token from /me/accounts. Facebook's access token guide walks through it.

Enter both on Sources → Add a source → Facebook.

Stars from recommendations

Facebook replaced star ratings with recommendations in 2018. Range Trust maps:

Recommendation Stored rating
Positive 5 stars
Negative 1 star

The aggregate shown in widget headers uses the Page's own overall_star_rating and rating_count, so it matches what Facebook displays.

Note that Facebook only exposes recommendations whose audience is public.

Token expiry

Long-lived Page tokens last around 60 days (indefinitely for some app setups). When one expires the source row shows the Graph API error; generate a fresh token and update the source. Already-synced reviews are unaffected.