fb-test-users is a utility module to create, read, update, and delete Facebook test users for your Facebook application.
$ npm install fb-test-users
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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'});### 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);
});### 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);
});### 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);
});### 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);
});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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