fb-test-users

fb-test-users is a utility module to create, read, update, and delete Facebook test users for your Facebook application.

Installation

$ npm install fb-test-users

Documentation

• FBTestUsers
• create
• list
• update
• delete

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FBTestUsers(options)

Returns a new FBTestUsers object.

Arguments

• options.appID - Your Facebook App ID.
• options.secret - Your Facebook App Secret.
• options.access_token - Your Facebook App's access token. Optional, if not specified, this will be lazily-fetched & cached when it is needed.

Example

FBTestUsers = require('fb-test-users');
fbTestUsers = new FBTestUsers({appID: 'YOUR_APP_ID', secret: 'YOUR_APP_SECRET'});

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### create(args, callback) ### Creates a new test user on Facebook.

Arguments

• args.limit - The number of users to create. Optional, defaults to 1.
• args.installed - Set the user's 'installed' parameter. Optional, defaults to true.
• args.permissions - Set the user's xw'permissions' parameter. Optional, defaults to 'read_stream'.
• callback(error, result) - The callback which is called after the user(s) are created, or an error occurred.
  • error - Error object
  • user - Array of user objects

Example

fbTestUsers.create({}, function(error, result){
  console.log(result);
});

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### list(callback) ###

Fetch an array of all test users associated with this app.

Arguments

• **limit - The numbers of users returned - default value is 50

• callback(error, users) - The callback which is called after the users have been fetched, or an error occurred.

  • error - Error object
  • user - Array of user objects

Example

fbTestUsers.list(function(error, users){
  console.log(users);
});

Example with limit, get 100 users

fbTestUsers.list(100, function(error, users){
  console.log(users);
});

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### update(userID, args, callback) ###

Update a test user's name and/or password.

Arguments

• userID - The Facebook userID of the user to update.
• args.name - The new name for the user. Optional.
• args.password - The new password for the user. Optional.
• callback(error, success - The callback which is called after the user has been updated, or an error occurred.
  • error - Error object
  • success - Boolean - true on success, false otherwise

Example

fbTestUsers.update('100006249401765', {name: 'Testy McCool', password: 'nottest'}, function(error, success){
  console.log(success);
});

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### delete(userID, callback) ###

Delete a test user.

Arguments

• userID - The Facebook userID of the user to delete.
• callback(error, success) - The callback which is called after the user has been deleted, or an error occurred.
  • error - Error object
  • success - Boolean - true on success, false otherwise

Example

fbTestUsers.delete('100006249401765', function(error, success){
  console.log(success);
});

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Running Tests

To run the test suite first invoke the following command within the repo, installing the development dependencies:

$ npm install

then create a file test/creds.json containing the following:

{
  "appID": "YOUR_APP_ID",
  "secret": "YOUR_APP_SECRET"
}

Finally, run the tests:

$ make test

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License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Patrick DeSantis <[e-mail]>

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