I have submitted a request for approval to have access on Pages Public Content on Facebook, I have uploaded a video of my app to show why I need this access, but I got the attached reply.
I really did not understand why it was rejected and I did not understand what should I do next.
Appreciate your help
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I'm developing a friend's company web site (PHP). He would like to display last Facebook posts from his professional Facebook page.
I'm using the Facebook Graph API for the first time and the documentation is huge and not user friendly at all. Anyway I created a Facebook App. After retrieving OAuth token it looks as simple as:
$data = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/".$pageId."/feed?access_token=".$token."&limit=10&fields=message,link,attachments,created_time,full_picture,picture,timeline_visibility");
BUT from what I understand this requires the Page Public Content Access permission. To get it you need to review your app.
The review process is insane! My app was rejected 3 times and they didn't explain how to make it pass. Each time they simply replied with this laconic message:
Is there any other way to get the posts of a public page?
Thanks a lot for your help! It will be much appreciated!
CONTEXT
So I have this Facebook page where I sell baby products. Every now and then we organize a photo contest as it has been proven an effective way to engage with the customers/community. Previously, we used to get photos from the customers and manually upload each and every one of them in an album.
Problem
Automate the process of
Getting an image from the customer
Uploading them into the album
Provide the customer with the URL
with:
The customer being able to upload the image on a UI(form as attached below) from the website which should upload the image in the Facebook album and return the URL back to them via Graph API. [Not sure if its a good idea, please feel free to advise :) ]
This is what I've built:
QUESTION
What should be the flow of getting the permanent access token where the customer won't have to log in. Maybe get a PageAccessToken with reading and write permission and process the automation from there?
What would your flow be if this case scenario? I want to avoid the customer having to log in as we don't need their data at all. All I need is them to post the photo in the album of my page.
Being new to the FB Graph API, I would really appreciate a step by step approach to solve the problem.
I am using VUE JS and Facebook JS SDK.
Backend PHP..
Cheers!
I have reached the conclusion after a few research and suggestions provided by #CBroe that designing the app like the way I initially imagined is not very practical and here is what I have decided to do:
The customers will be able to send the required information by filling the form
The information will be saved in a database including the image
The first thing will be to generate a user access token
Generate Long-lived user access token
Generate Long-lived page access token
I have decided, instead of pushing the photo directly to Facebook, it'll be first approved by the admin
If everything alright the admin will post it to the Facebook album with a push of a button
So, my solution is to automate posting to the Facebook where the admin has to push a approve button instead of the customer being able to directly post the photo on Facebook. I will try to post a link to git after it's done.
for years I was using Facebook API to fetch public Page post data using Page Public Content Access for my scientific school project, but because of new regulations, now it requires Business verification.
This confuses me, because the data is not used for any business purposes, this data is not sensitive(since it's available for general public) and yet I need to verify it for business use?
Maybe I am missing something and I don't need the permission for PPCA and should use something else?
The project used to visit a public public FB page and save some of the data from posts to my database.That's it.
Yes, Facebook has closed the "free-content-flow". You must keep in mind that even though the content that you are requesting from the GRAPH API is publicly available to anyone on the internet, BUT that does not mean that Facebook has to "open" their API for anyone to collect data from them so easily.
After I submitted my app for review (my review was fully loaded with a screencast and had all the criteria as required by Facebook) - this is what I got back from them. (See attachment)
FACEBOOK'S RESPONSE:
Not Approved: Page Public Content Access
App Verification feedback
We were unable to verify a valid use case for the requested permission(s) from the information you provided. Please ensure your use case is valid and that you are correctly utilizing the permission(s) in the app.
After review, your app does not require Page Public Content Access for its intended function demonstrated in the screencast. (But it does)
The only valid use case for Page Public Content Access is to read and analyze insights from other pages where you are not the admin.
Your app's intended functionality can be supported by the Manage_Pages or Read_Insights permissions. For more details on how best to incorporate these permissions, please visit our Permissions Reference.
Thank you.
I want to build a dashboard that enables any company to track the social media activity of its competitors.
For example.. let's say you are a small business owner. You would be able to add the 'facebook/instagram page id's' of your 4-5 competitors within the app. The app would retrieve the historical data of your competitors.. and enable you to interactively explore what they are doing. How often they are posting, at the time of the day, what is liked/not liked, etc.
Problem is: Since Cambridge Analytica, Facebook requires app review to allow access to public page data. But how do I show the app.. when I don't have the data to build it?
Does anyone have any remote idea whether the thing that I am trying to build is generally within that would be considered permissible by Facebook?
You can still make your dashboard which will show your Facebook activity.
To get the Facebook page ID of 4-5 competitors. The competitors have to use your app and allow permission to your app for accessing public features.
You have to own a Facebook page. Get OAuth key. For every request to Facebook you will be using this Key. In case of mischievous activity your OAuth key will be blocked.
What you are trying to do is not possible these days and neither permissible by Facebook.
You can build your App already and just use your own Pages for testing - with a Page Token of those Pages. Send Facebook a video how you are using the data in the review process. I have recently got Page Public Content Access approved for that specific use case. Facebook just wants to see how you will use the public content, the App does not need to be 100% finished.
What´s allowed and what´s not allowed: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/feature#reference-PAGES_ACCESS
In order to provide the screencast for the App review I'd have to pull the data from a public page, of course which isn't possible as I don't have access to it (because my app hasn't been reviewed). Infinite loop forming...
So in order to provide the screencast I should use "dummy" data that I can pull from my own page for example? Or are the App reviewers expecting something different?