/InfoCannon

A tool for automating the upload of videos to social networks

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InfoCannon

A tool for automating the upload of Infowars videos to Facebook

Tool Name: InfoCannon
Source Code: https://github.com/PatriotDevOps/InfoCannon
Language: C# .Net 4.5 WinForms
Use Case: Mass upload Infowars show archives and Special Reports into Facebook daily. For use on personal newsfeed or public page.

Configuration Directions:

  1. Go to developers.facebook.com and Create a Facebook App.
  2. Name the app something like "video uploader"
  3. Provide a contact email (same as account email).
  4. When asked to choose a scenario/use case use Pages API.
  5. After creating your app, be sure to create & add a Privacy Policy URL, this is required in order to make it live. You can generate one at https://www.termsfeed.com/privacy-policy-generator/. This URL will go on the Basic tab of your App Dashboard page.
  6. After you create your app you should be on the App Dashboard page. If you need help finding it, go here and click on your app: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
  7. From the App Dashboard, be sure that your app is not "Live". This is controlled by a switch in the top right corner of the page. If it is, turn it off.
  8. Navigate to Tools > Graph API Explorer. Open it in a new tab.
  9. From Graph API Explorer, click Get Token, then choose Get User Access Token.
  10. From the Select Permissions pop-up, mark the following:
    • publish_pages
    • publish_video
    • manage_pages
    • pages_show_list
  11. Click Get Access Token.
  12. You may use this token for publishing to your own newsfeed, or to obtain a page access token, follow these additional steps:
    1. Click Get Token again.
    2. Under the Page Access Tokens section, choose the name of the page you want to publish to.
    3. Finally, click Get Token again, and choose Request_Pages. A dialog prompt appears, click Continue As (Your Name)
    4. You will be prompted which pages you want to grant access to, leave all checked or change the selections, click Next.
    5. Leave both Manage your Pages and Publish as Pages you manage set to Yes.
    6. Click Done. Click OK.
  13. From Graph API Explorer, select and copy the Access Token code you generated.
  14. Open InfoCannon and paste the access token into the Access Key textbox.
  15. From InfoCannon, set the Page ID accordingly:
  • If using the User Access Token to post to your own page, type me in the Page ID field.
  • If using a Page Access Token to post to a page you manage, obtain the Page ID from the About section of your page. This is found at the very bottom of your page's About section.
  1. From InfoCannon, click the Test button to fire off a post that simply says "This is a test". If this is successful, proceed to the next step. Keep in mind nobody can see the post at this stage except for you. However, if you do not delete the post it will become visible once the app goes live.
  2. Click Save to remember the settings, they will re-appear when you open the tool. They are kept in a text file in the tool's current directory.

Considerations You will need to repeat the above steps 4-12 each time that you make the app "live". This is a workaround to a restriction Facebook has placed on the developer API. When the app is in "Live" mode you cannot obtain a valid API key with public permissions. However, you can do so when the app is in Developer mode, and use it. Upon placing the app in "Live" status, your videos will become public and your developer Access Token will be made invalid. Each time you upload videos, you will need to place the app in "Developer Mode" before generating a new Access Token key with Graph API Explorer. Make sense? I hope so.

Using the Tool

  1. Select the show: Alex Jones Show, David Knight, War Room, or Special Reports
  2. Select the date to gather videos from (The tool caches only the last 100 or so, don't go back more than a month or two.)
  3. Click Gather Videos, if you have never uploaded this video before then it will be auto-checked, otherwise it is unchecked.
  4. Click Post Videos, all videos in the above listbox that are checked will be uploaded and posted to the page with full descriptions.
  5. You can do as many video uploads to as many pages as you like prior to making the app "live".
  6. If the posting of videos goes extremely quick, rather than taking a few seconds to one minute per video, then your Access Token is invalid. You can see this in the status bar after clicking Post Videos.

NOTES:

  1. DO NOT submit your app for Review, under any circumstances
  2. Use backup accounts if possible. Best not to do with an account for which you don't have data backed up on.
  3. If you ever want to remove ALL the videos uploaded, you can do so by deleting the app from developers.facebok.com. Conversely, do not delete the app unless you intend to lose all videos uploaded by InfoCannon. This can be useful if you need to "go dark" quickly.

Latest Screenshot of the Tool's primary interface:

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