Objective

Retrieve an access token to sync and submit message templates.

Applies To

• WhatsApp Messages API 
• Respond.io

Procedure

1. Open the Facebook business Manager
2. Select WhatsApp accounts
3. Click on any of your WhatsApp business accounts visible and choose Settings
4. Click on the WhatsApp Manager button 
5. A new window pops up. Assuming Chrome is the browser, right-click and select Inspect.
6. Select the Network tab and Refresh the page
7. A lot of requests will appear under Name. Scroll down and find one that has "?access_token="
8. Double click on the value after access_token: and keep a copy
9. The copied token can be used to manage templates through the Graph API
10. Check the token's validity using the Facebook Access Token Debugger https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/accesstoken