Hello Facebook Developers Community,
I am trying to go through the 'Request for App Review' process for which I have completed all the steps besides one which is very confusing and literally has no useful guidance anywhere.
The dashboard shows visual checkmarks on all the steps completed besides the 'Your submission must include pages_read_engagement to use instagram_basic'
Just a brief background on what i am trying to do:
I am only trying to get the facebook developer access approved to go live to use 'Instagram Basic Display' and the api's to allow my application users to connect their instagram account and fetch only single images posted on their account to be displayed with in my application.
We have already gone through the 'Business Verification' process and already have that approved as well as having the facebook business account connect to our instagram account.
the only help i came across was on 'Pages Api' docs which mentions that
'The pages_read_engagement permission allows your app to read content (posts, photos, videos, events) posted by the Page, read followers data (including name, PSID), and profile picture, and read metadata and other insights about the Page. The allowed usage for this permission is to help a Page Admin administer and manage a Page. You may also use this permission to request analytics insights to improve your app and for marketing or advertising purposes, through the use of aggregated and de-identified or anonymized information (provided such data cannot be re-identified).'
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/permissions/reference/pages_read_engagement
for which none of those endpoints I am using or plan on using at all and not sure how it even got added.
I am really not sure what else to do and what pages_read_engagement has to do with my app to be approved.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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I am creating some small api to help by business to post images from our CRM to instagram and facebook. Currenty I can find instagram_basic permission to read from instagram but can not find instagram_content_publish from anywhere.
I checked App Review Page From our production which connects to instagram and I also tried to set this permission to my test user on test application and I can not see that from permissions.
Can somebody please tell me why can't I find that specific permission. Without it I can not post to instagram from my app.
Note: Our Facebook page is connected to our instagram account.
As it is documented I have to assign instagram_content_publish in order to create posts on instagram https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/#reference-instagram_content_publish
Image 1: No such permission found for test user
Image 2: No such permission found in App Review For production
Image 3: I can find instagram_basic for test user
You don’t get to see or find that permission, because your app is not among those allowed to use publishing functionality to begin with.
Content Publishing is not available to just any 3rd-party apps at the moment, but only to specific partner companies.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/content-publishing:
The Content Publishing API is in closed beta with Facebook Marketing Partners and Instagram Partners only. We are not accepting new applicants at this time.
As of January 27th, 2021 you can now publish to Instagram Business type accounts via the Instagram Graph API. Be sure to check out the restrictions in the documentation.
Blog Post:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/01/26/introducing-instagram-content-publishing-api/
API Documentation:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/content-publishing#endpoints
I want to scrape comments, likes and posts for a Facebook page that I'm an Analyst in (I'm not the admin, I've been given the 'Analyst' role).
I'm using the code in https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper to scrape comments.
Apparantely, you can get likes, posts and reactions but you cannot retrieve the comments of a Facebook page without a Page Access Token.
so I went ahead and looked at the popular answer in the link facebook: permanent Page Access Token?
Not sure if this used to be the case before, but if you follow the instructions in Step 1, substep 4, In the pop-up, under the "Extended Permissions" tab, check "manage_pages". For this to work, it is asking me to submit a request with many checkboxes asking me the purpose of needing this permission, and along with this, it is not letting me send a request review without having Privacy Policy URLs, App icons, User Guidelines and a VIDEO showing how this App will be used.. I literally just want to scrape comments from my own Facebook page where I'm been given an Analyst role that has lesser privileges than Administrator, and for this I was asked to create an App for it and set Native or desktop app? to No to ensure I don't get a Bad Request when I run my code.
I'd love it if you could give me any help in this direction.. I want a solution to how I could get Extended Permissions or follow the steps in the popular answer, or simply get Page Access Token without having to set Privacy Policy Guidelines, an App icon and a video showing a demonstration of something I can't understand.
I have the task to integrate some commercial sharing stuff into a website.
The idea is that the user a) logs in/registers in the website, b) the user connects his user account with his facebook account - by adding and accepting the website application.
Here comes the interesting part - is there a way of linking the facebook account with my website's account so that I can send them updates and promotions directly to their walls programatically?
In the application dialog, it's clearly noted that the user allows the application to write to the user wall so they accept and agree this. Then, for example, if I want to send them a promotion or update directly on their wall using the fb application api, how can I achieve this? All the tutorials I've read consider the user using the Facebook Login
The concrete idea is something like weekly promotion feed that my clients want to allow customers to allow being posted directly on their walls. As I don't have any experience with facebook development, I'd appreciate knowing how, if at all possible, this can be achieved?
Most of what you're suggesting is against policy, and isnt' technically possible either as users need to come back to the app once every 60 days for you to have a valid access_token for them.
The Authentication docs explain how to get access to a user's information with their permission, and the Permission documentation explains which permissions grant access to which functions or fields.
From the documentation it seems that the user should always authorize the Facebook application even to access basic permissions.
However, sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Clicker.com auto-authorize the logged facebook user without showing the authorization dialog. If you visit one of those sites for the first time they will be able to access your public data without you authorizing it. If I go to the Apps on my facebook settings, an entry will appear showing that I gave access to those applications (but I DID NOT).
How can this be possible? Is it related to the "Instant Personalization" feature for selected partners?
Thanks
Well, I was doing some research and yes, it's all about Instant Personalization.
From Facebook:
We've partnered with a few websites to provide you with great,
personalized experiences the moment you arrive, such as immediately
playing the music you like or displaying friends' reviews. To tailor
your experience, these partners only access public information (like
your name and profile picture) and other information you've made
public.
From one of its partners:
Clicker.com
So -at the time I'm writing this- unless you're a partner of Facebook, you'll have to show the old OAuth dialog.
Hope it helps!
I want to add the 'Log in with Facebook' option to my website, however I'm unsure how to integrate the information gained when someone logs into my website with Facebook with my current Google Analytics.
Is it possible to link up a visit in Google Analytics with a user who has logged into the site with Facebook to enable me to see things like age, gender etc?
Any help you can give me on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
you may have to do this via a redirection or possibly a frame.
Google Analytics does nolt track individual users, it provides anonymized data. So at the top level, no you cannot do this. However, there are a few more things avaiable to you. One: Facebook provides facebook insights, their own tracking suite, that will give you demographic information on the users of a facebook app or fan page. You site will effectively become a facebook app when you use their user authenication, so you will be able to get insights tracking on you site. At the present moment, facebook insights and google analyitcs do not itegrate or share data. Facebook insight also provides anonymized data, so you will not be able to identify an individual through the tracking.
The final option is, now that you are tracking users through login, you can implement your own tracking info on your site to see what individual users are doing, and attempt to track their preferences.
Its also entirely legal (in the United States at least) to buy access to marketing data and use use your registered user name pool to get additional information.
If you wanted, you could set up a "funnel" in Google.
When a user logs in through Facebook, you could send them to a specific page and then track their progress from there...
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55515
So using this you could get the percentage of users who log in through Facebook... etc.
But to collect information other than that, you would have to get the correct permissions documented here eg. user_birthday (to get the user's Birthday) and query the Graph API from there, thus implementing your own tracking of users.
You can query the Graph API using the various SDKs that Facebook provide explained here.
First of all you should check out this Google document. It explains, how you set a custom unique user id via google analytics.
Further you've to send an event to google analytics (e.g. 'fb_login') via the callback function of your facebook login function.