Ok I've been having a hard time getting approved for page public content access.
I'm developing a facebook app that let's you search for facebook pages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc-Ah_To-xg
Sort of like this.
Here are my questions:
How do I get approved for PPCA when I can't make a screencast of the app in action without actually having PPCA?
Is it possible to search for pages without PPCA?
Will hardcoding work?
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It seems to me I am delving unnecessarily deep into GraphAPI and app creation to do this simple thing, but I can't figure out any other way.
What I want for my personal website(nothing connected to Facebook) is to insert a feed from a public Facebook page, much like the FB page plugin, but I need only about three latest posts and need to style them completely differently.
I tried to do it through FB Page Feed guide with GraphAPI and also PHP SDK, but both say:
This endpoint requires the 'pages_read_user_content' permission or the 'Page Public Content Access' feature.
...and to get Page Public Content Access, I need successful review of my app.
That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I don't want to develop an app, I already have created a website and just want to insert public page feed in there. What am I missing?
I am planning to use Facebook feeds from some public pages which don't belong to me. For example WHO Facebook page. I am planning to use these posts from multiple pages and show on a website. My question is, whether this is even possible with all kind of crazy security policies in place? Since Facebook is allowing to embed public posts, I am assuming we can achieve this somehow. If I have to create page/app myself and get it reviewed by Facebook, anyone got any link on how to get this done?
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
I'm working on an app and I need to pull in the public posts from the page of a business. I do not want users to login or send any information back to Facebook, I just need the posts so they can be shown in a read-only format.
I've looked around and from what I've read, Facebook offers ways to authenticate your connection to the API, but for security reasons you shouldn't make the calls directly from your app. I've seen something called a client token mentioned, that is assumed to be insecure, but I can't find much mention of it outside of https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens. It says it can be found in the app dashboard, but I have not been able to find it.
How do you make a call to get the posts of a public facebook page from an iOS app?
I ended up finding something that wasn't quite what I was looking for, but still got the job done: Facebook Page Plugin
It lets you embed the publicly available feed of a Facebook page into a web page. If you want to use it in an app you can host the web page that has the feed code in it and then load it into a web view in the app.
I am a PHP developer, but completely new to this Facebook stuff and am getting all confused. The whole Apps vs Pages vs Fan Pages terminology is driving me nuts. Please help!
My client's requirements:
1) Display Like button on a single web page
2) When Like button is clicked, content on the page is unlocked and displayed (PHP)
3) Future visits to the page detects that visitor already likes the page, and content remains unlocked (PHP)
4) All updates to web page profile on FB will show on Likers' news feed
My understanding is that the cleanest way of doing (3) above is to use the PHP SDK. But to do this, I need to create an app (to get the App ID). So I created an App. I 'liked' the App from my FB profile. Updates to my app are posted to my news feed. So far, so good.
However when I try and implement the PHP SDK, it only works if I authorize the App to my account first. Is there a way of avoiding this authorization step just for a simple "Like" (I ask because I didn't have to authorize anything when liking the app within FB)? If this authorization is unavoidable, are there any alternatives to Apps that would allow me to achieve the above requirements?
Ideally, I'd like to use just "Pages" to do this, and not Apps, but I believe I cannot achieve (2) and (3) with pages, correct (remembering everything needs to be server side, so no JavaScript showing and hiding layers etc)?
I would be grateful for any guidance.
Thanks.
So I'm assuming what we are talking about here is a Facebook tab - the 520 pixel wide applications that can go in Fan pages?
If not, you will not be able to make this happen without permissions. It sounds like that is what you're talking about, though.
Here's an example of an Facebook tab on the Coca Cola fan page:
In a tab, the PHP SDK will tell you if the user is a fan of the page (not of the app, of the page). You'll need to read the signed request - there will be a parameter there called Page, which tells you if the user is already a fan (see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/). You get this without having to authorize.
I usually read all this and store whether the user is a fan in a boolean variable. Then later in my page I'll do something like this:
<?php if ($isFan):?>
Content for fans here
<?php else:?>
Content for non-fans here
<?php endif;?>
Keep in mind that it is only telling you if the user is a fan OF THAT PAGE - if you set up your app on a test page, for instance, it'll tell you if the user is a fan of that test page or not, NOT if the user is a fan of your app.
In order to read what a facebook user likes using the PHP SDK, you will need the user_likes permission. You may however, be able to hack something together by rendering a like button on your page somewhere and detecting the color of the button, meaning the user has liked the page. This may be problematic because of cross domain issues considering the like button is rendered as an iframe.
Best of luck!
For some things, you need an app. Like restricting access to content if the user has "Liked" something. You need custom code to do that. You don't need an app for a basic "Like" button, but you really can't get any stats on the Likes. You can link an app to a website, so that you can report on the content and referrals. If you go to http://www.facebook.com/insights/ you can link the app with a website so the insights/reporting are combined. Just click on the "Insights for your Website" button. It does require validation.
That said, your confusion is the norm. Apps, Pages and Fan Pages are almost the same thing. They are all referenced through numerical ID. There are subtle feature differences between Pages and App Pages. An app can be added to any Page if it is configured to do so. But you can't add a Page to another Page.
You can use FQL to query if a user is a fan of your app, instead of the Page you are currently on.
Facebook controls what gets shown in the news feed. Just because you post to the feed, doesn't mean it will show. However, if you are an admin of the Page and/or App, posts will always show in your feed.