In config/settings.yml, setting enable_facebook_push: true will enable pushing all captured, processed
images to a Facebook page. See below headings for the sequence of steps required to enable this functionality.
First, update your config/settings.yml file to set enable_facebook_push: true.
Finally, re-run the ./install_and_upgrade.sh script to propagate the settings and install a sample/template
/home/{{ target_user }}/.facebook.conf configuration file.
In order to configure Facebook pushing, you will need a Business account and a Facebook page which ID you will use to get the API key. Once you've created a business account
and created a Facebook page, you must then set the application permissions to be Read & Write and publish the app from the testing phase into the live phase. Note that the first API key you get will be short-lived and you need to obtain the permanent API key. Here is the guide for that. Finally, for API key, copy the following from the Facebook developer's interface to the
/home/{{ target_user }}/.facebook.conf file:
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API Key:
FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN=""The Key you are to enter is your Page Token - See How to get a Facebook page access token in 2024
If you want to run a manual test to ensure the Facebook configurations are acceptable, you can run a quick test from the command line and pass an actual image file (or many) to the command like so:
${HOME}/raspberry-noaa-v2/scripts/push_processors/push_facebook.py "test annotation" \
"/srv/images/NOAA-15-20240826-143009-HVCT.jpg /srv/images/NOAA-15-20240826-143009-sea.jpg /srv/images/NOAA-15-20240826-143009-polar-direction.png"If all goes well and the image paths passed are files that actually exist, you should see a new post on your Facebook page timeline!
Once the above have been performed, simply wait until your next capture occurs and you should then see posts with images show up on your Facebook feed!