How can I get an access token and an app token?
I have registered my app through this site https://developers.facebook.com/ I chose "business"
What do I want?
I want to get an access to posts of groups/users and comments. At first itll be enough if I will have an access only to open pages. Im not a company and when I tried to get it through the graph api (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/) I got the following error 'This endpoint requires the 'pages_read_user_content' permission or the 'Page Public Content Access' feature'. I chose these items(Facebook App->my app; User or Page->App token).
I tried to get these permissions in the admin interface of my app in FB in this section "Permissions and Features". Having send these requests it was written "You will need to complete this step in addition to App Review before you can access live data.
Business verification: You'll need to connect your app to a Facebook Business Manager account and upload an official document showing your business or organization's name and physical address.".
As I mentioned before Im not a company. May someone recommend me what to do next? Should I create a new app and choose something else instead of "Business"? Or should I send a request to the FBs support and explain to them my situation, if "yes", how can I find this support contacts? Actually I didnt find support contacts on their site, only the community form and their support associated with payment questions.
I tried to ask in their official community, but they didnt answer for 17 days
https://developers.facebook.com/community/threads/224348066049560/?post_id=224348069382893
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I've written a Python script to pull performance metrics data from the Facebook Graph API for a connected Instagram Business account. It's a script which runs locally and uses my account's credentials.
I've submitted an App Review selecting "No" and "App doesn't use the Facebook Login dialog." for the "Is a Facebook reviewer able to access or login to your app to verify you're using permissions or features according to Facebook Platform Policy?" and "Why isn't a Facebook reviewer able to access or install your app? Select the option(s) that best describe the functionality of your integration." questions.
However, it's been rejected with the following reason given:
"We found that your app's test credentials did not allow us to fully review the content of the app or there were no test credentials provided for us to review. If your test credentials do allow access, check that the account is setup properly to provide us with full access and to allow us to reproduce the use case steps."
I followed the steps from the Server-to-Server App Sample Submission. I've explained why each permission is required and uploaded a screencast of accessing the relevant endpoints.
Is there something I'm missing?
We have a simple app that summarizes the total number of mentions your instagram account gets using the IG-User/tags endpoint on the graph api (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/user/tags/)
The pre-requisite of the app is the user has their fb account linked to their IG - Business or IG - Creator account.
Unfortunately every time we've submitted it for review so far it has come back with the same comment from FB:
"Although we were able to login to your app using the Facebook Login authentication, we were unable to test the steps to connect an Instagram business account. As a result, you'll need to implement an integration flow for an end user to connect their Instagram business account(s)"
Now as I understand it there is no way I can get the user to link their IG account to FB or to a FB page using the API. The "link account" action is purely handled using the Instagram app. Or am I missing something here.
Well after 3 weeks of back and forth with multiple seemingly segmented facebook support teams I have been able to get this permission from them.
Turns out that there's an unexplained flow here:
This is verbatim from the information I received from their chat support (but is not found anywhere in the documentation)
"You have needed to provide Test Users on your App Dashboard, grant the test user the Instagram_manage_comments permission and then provide us with the login details. We would then link that to an internal Instagram Business Account."(sic)
The part where they link an internal business account to the test user happens on their end and outside the scope of the app. I confirmed this and even then I failed the review multiple times because apparently the steps to approve IG business permissions have not been standardized yet and sometimes the approver simply doesn't know what needs to be done. It's a strange state of affairs and the answer it seems is to just keep pushing.
I'm having the same problem and looking forward to see some comments to your post since the first day. But I started to think it will never come.
I believe they want a new user to start with minimum permissions (which is the email permission) and add other permission only as they are needed. This requires a mechanism in your app that guide a new user logged in with only email permission to give other permissions (e.g. taping a button that opens up user’s IG business account needs instagram_basic and manage_pages permissions. Or taping “post comment” button needs manage_comments permission.) So your app should open up a window that the user can give permissions when any of these events fires. (or when user decides to take permission(s) back)
This is what I understand from “steps to connect an Instagram business account”.
But I am not sure if my understanding is correct. I would definitely like to hear if you found any solutions.
I'm also having the same problem as you as I'm developing similar service to IGBlade (https://igblade.com) & Social Blade (https://socialblade.com).
I'm beginning the wonder if I should change my app review request so that I would inform Facebook that the permissions my app is requesting work serverside and therefore there's no need to implement an integration flow for an end user to connect their Instagram business account(s) to my app.
Any thoughts?
Here is what I have done to get the approval
Create a Facebook test user with correct permissions
Log in with this user
Create a Facebook Page
Edit settings on Facebook Page and add Instagram Business account (personal one)
Submit Facebook review with both credentials (Facebook test user + personal Instagram user).
Wait for review and do not forget to change your personal Instagram user password after the review.
I made facebook profile long back and have created it to facebook page for business purpose. Now I need to access facebook API for programming, as per documentation I require application id for using facebook API, I am able to register in facebook developers but while creating apps it gives me below message.
Not Authorized To Manage Apps: This account is not authorized to manage
apps. Please use your verified personal Facebook account to create and
manage your apps.
If I create application id in my personal account than how can I assign that application Id to my official page?
I have tried creating application Id in my personal account but sometimes FB.getLoginStatus() gives response as "not authorized" but some times it gives "not login".
Cant figure out the problem, Can anyone please help me?
Thank You in advance.
You create a the app using your personal account. Then you create a page access token which is explained as https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens
Problem
I am trying to access developers.facebook.com with a user account, but I only get a blank page. I read some articles on how to become a Facebook developer. According to the articles you have to have at least one friend, a verified account and you have to add the Facebook developer app to your account. Except for adding the developer app I did all of that. When I search for the developer app I and try to visit the page of the developer app I get redirected to my 'home' page (see Appendix).
There are a lot of questions on Stackoverflow that describe the exact same behavior. For instance:
how do I access facebook developer app?
cant login to facebook developer app, getting redirected to my facebook page instead
They all state that the problem is that you can't become a developer if you use a business or page account. So I tried to find out if my account is of such a type. The Facebook documentation says:
Business accounts are designed for people who only want to use Facebook to administer Pages and their ad campaigns. You can use a business account to view all the Pages and Social Ads you've created. You can also see public info about other people on Facebook from a business account, but you can't interact with those people outside the context of your Page. And, unlike personal accounts, business accounts can't be found in search, send or receive friend requests or create/develop apps. (link)
Since I added another account as friend I don't think that the account is a business or page account.
What I have tried so far
First I deleted all my cookies to be sure that those are not the problem. I also tried another browser (Chrome 21 and Firefox 14). Accessing sub pages of developers.facebook.com also result in a redirect to my home page.
Questions
How can I add the developer app to my account?
How can I access developers.facebook.com?
Appendix
After a long time I think I found the problem. The account I was given was in fact a user account. But it was a test user account. Those accounts are very limited and can't be used to access developers.facebook.com. You can read more about test users in the Facebook documentation.
I also wrote:
Since I added another account as friend I don't think that the account is a business or page account.
Funny thing is that the account I added also is a test user account. And those can friend each other but not real accounts.
Having read the Facebook connect documentation I'm unable to determine what information I will have.
I realise I will have the Profile photo & Proxy email and access to a friends mechanism. I'm reasonably sure I will have access to First name and surname. Will I have access to things like Age?
EDIT: This isn't a Facebook APP, I'm using Facebook connect. RE: bobcat's response, can you still use Users.getInfo?
Once a facebook user has okayed your app, you can use the API including Users.getInfo which gives you the users birthday.
update As far as I can tell from the docs, when a user uses facebook connect to authenticate on a website, then the website can do anything that a facebook app could, with a few restrictions.
For some reason this post still came up when searching for something similar with Facebook login information, despite how old the post is.
Facebook is now using the term "FB.login" which was known as "Login with Facebook". It provides you with information that you request, whether that be an email and birthday, to profile information of their name and address, etc.
I found this link that will tell you the permissions you can request using FB.login here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.0
There are plenty of options for requesting information and posting on their behalf.
I was searching for the access token information to keep the connection while registering or signing in. That information I found at the bottom of the next section of their documentation, found here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/