I'm trying to make an app that will allow blog posts from my website to be published to a Facebook page which I am the admin of.
Obviously I need the publish_pages and manage_pages permission to do this and I need to provide a screencast showing how these permissions will be used.
From my understanding, I can still publish a post from my website to my Facebook page while the app is in development mode as long as I am the admin of the page (which I am) but the posts won't be visible to the public.
So I complete the authentication process here (see below).
Finally I add my blog post. However, I then get the following as an error message
"(#200) The permission(s) publish_actions are not available. It has been deprecated. If you want to provide a way for your app users to share content to Facebook, we encourage you to use our Sharing products instead."
Would this be an issue with the system I am using, making a depreciated API call?
Deprecation:
The publish_actions permission will be deprecated. This permission granted apps access to publish posts to Facebook as the logged in user. Apps created from today onwards will not have access to this permission. Apps created before today that have been previously approved to request publish_actions can continue to do so until August 1, 2018. No further apps will be approved to use publish_actions via app review. Developers currently utilizing publish_actions are encouraged to switch to Facebook's Share dialogs for web, iOS and Android.
From now on you can only publish to your own facebook profile not facebook page. For more information you can visit their official documentation
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I am trying to automate posting to my Facebook Business page. FB is forcing me to get an app review to approve the manage_pages and publish_pages permissions. I am not making an app for any other users, it is just for me.
Is there a way to avoid app review since I am not creating a public app?
When I try to use my user token (I am a page admin) in the API call it gives me the permission not available error. I can publish using the page token in Dev mode, (which makes all the posts hidden).
Sorry, this isn't a specific code question, If there is a better place to post this I will move it.
When I use my user token:
(#200) The permission(s) publish_actions are not available. It has been deprecated. If you want to provide a way for your app users to share content to Facebook, we encourage you to use our Sharing products instead.
When I use my page token:
(#200) The permission(s) manage_pages,publish_pages are not available. It could because either they are deprecated or need to be approved by App Review.
Yesterday for one of my facebook applications I received an alert message in the developers console that states:
App Review required by August 1, 2018 to retain access to Facebook Platform APIs ... if your ap is not submitted you will loose access to these permissions: user_link, user_gender, user_age_range, user_friends
My application only uses the public_profile permission, which does not require review according to their documentation.
At the same time I am not able to submit my application for review from the developers console because it requires login permissions to be selected and public_profile is not listed there.
Should I be worried that I can't submit my App for review or am I misunderstanding the 'App review form'?
public_profile is deprecated in v3.0 of the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/version3.0
It is just a warning though, if you don´t use those permissions then you should be fine for now. Take a look at the changelog about public_profile replacements though.
I have an app & user_status permission is obtained from facebook after its submitted for review. I can get the v2.2/me?fields=statuses data for the App's admin. No other fb accounts are able to get this data. When I login with facebook from my portal, the permissions requested are not shown to the users.
Is the issue related to FB API. I can use the obtained permissions only for the App's admin alone?
Is this issue related to not obtaining consent from the account while logging in from my portal. If yes, what is the method to get this done.
Anyone kindly help me regarding this.
It's all in the docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/login#do-you-need-review
...your app's developers will be able to see, and grant, any permission without requiring review by Facebook.
and
People who are listed in your app's Roles tab will have access to extended permissions without going through review (e.g. publish_actions or manage_pages). For example, if you use the Facebook Plugin for Wordpress to publish your blog posts to your Facebook Page or Profile, you do not need to submit for review so long as all your publishers are listed in your app's Roles tab.
I created facebook app for my website & To enriches the user's experience i need extended permissions from facebook for my app ( which includes read_stream with some other permission ) , i have submitted the app for reviews with valid description but submission were not approved and i could not find any valid reason for that.
I noticed this description in read_stream -- Android and iOS apps will not be approved for this permission. In addition, Web, Desktop, in-car and TV apps will not be granted this permission. , can you please explain meaning of this ?
Here is my reference site - https://hootsuite.com/ , they are using read_stream as well.
Hootsuite is using a v1.0 App created before v2.0 was introduced. It will stop working for them after April 2015, when they have to go through the review process too. You will not get read_stream approved for your website, as you can read in the quote you posted.
Meaning, you can only use read_stream in an App created before end of April 2014, and only until end of April 2015. Not worth using it anymore imho.
It's all in the docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.2#reference-read_stream
This permission is granted to apps building a Facebook-branded client on platforms where Facebook is not already available. For example, Android and iOS apps will not be approved for this permission. In addition, Web, Desktop, in-car and TV apps will not be granted this permission.
So, I strongly doubt that you'll receive this permission during app review.
Now someone can use "user_posts" permission - This new permission allows an app to access the posts on a person's Timeline. This includes the someone's own posts, posts they are tagged in and posts other people make on their Timeline.
This is a useful alternative to News Feeds.
Previously, this content was accessible with the read_stream permission. The user_posts permission is automatically granted to anyone who previously had read_stream permission.
Facebook Platform Changelog
Getting some conflicting information from Facebook currently on whether or not the read_stream permission is actually deprecated for non-Facebook branded apps moving forward. I know recently the change was made to require app-specific access tokens for read-stream permissions.
In the Facebook graph explorer it looks as though my existing application which was already granted an app-specific access token for the read_stream persmission is still providing access to the [user-id]/posts endpoint, although I also noticed that searching for this endpoint in the reference takes you now to [user-id]/feed, which also requires the read_stream permission.
When searching the read_stream permission in the reference however, it now reads:
This permission is granted to apps building a Facebook-branded client on platforms where Facebook is not already available. For example, Android and iOS apps will not be approved for this permission. In addition, Web, Desktop and TV apps will not be granted this permission.
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Wondering if anyone from Facebook or outside can actually confirm that this endpoint is now closed to 3rd-party apps, and if there is any explanation whatsoever for why?
Now someone can use "user_posts" permission - This new permission allows an app to access the posts on a person's Timeline. This includes the someone's own posts, posts they are tagged in and posts other people make on their Timeline.
This is a useful alternative to News Feeds.
Previously, this content was accessible with the read_stream permission. The user_posts permission is automatically granted to anyone who previously had read_stream permission.
Facebook Platform Changelog