In 2014, Facebook enacted rules that mandates developers to get friends' permission and another rule that app developers must get approval from facebook before requesting access to sensitive data. I am wondering what effect this has had on your experience as an app developer. Secondly, I am also wondering what effect the new rules have had on your experience as an app developer. By new rules, I am referring to the ones that Facebook released in March 2018, namely: the ban of those developers who do not consent to auditors, removing access to data after 3 months of no use, and the ability of users to revoke permission. Lastly, I am wondering to what extent you believe the following statement to be true, especially in the context of Facebook in recent times:
"There is no point to developing social network apps that can’t involve the user’s social network."
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Now, My Facebook Login API has been restrict with the following message from Facebook:
Your app is violating the following Platform Terms or Developer
Policies: Developer Policy 1.2: Build an app that is stable and easily
navigable.Some common violations of this policy include:
Broken Facebook integration (e.g. broken share, like or comment functionality)
Broken user experience in the app (e.g. app has broken links or user interface failures)
I still have no clue what I have done wrong on my Facebook API though.
How can I make a change on Facebook API to solve this kind of problem that causes Facebook to restrict by Facebook Login API.
That may be due to the following reason:
Facebook periodically reviews the websites and applications which are
on it. Your application is in its review process currently. We are
required to test the Facebook login functionality in order to conclude
the review in totality. However, we are unable to do so.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to locate a Facebook integration
(Login, Share, and Like) on your submitted platform. To help us
conclude the review process, could you kindly share the details
regarding the location of a Facebook integration and how to navigate
to it on your website URL.
This review is essential to Facebook as we want to offer the best
experience to users as well as developers like yourself. Please help
us in bringing your application into compliance by working with us.
Alternatively, you could aid us by sending us credentials of a test
user who is already registered and connected to an FB account within
the app. You can get all the information related to creating a test
user here - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/test-users.
Most people get this response in further detail. You can check the Facebook button on the given URL in the Facebook app.
If Facebook button URL is different and the URL mentioned in the Facebook app is different then you should reply to them and explain it.
As all of you know, Facebook has reset and close a lot of permissions on Graph API since Cambridge Analytica.
Recently Facebook has re-opened their API access with app review process. For the review process, we would like to submit "user_events" permission.
But the problem is to demonstrate how we are using this permission with Screencast because we currently cannot get access to "user_events" even with test users.
So how should we record screencast for "user_events" permission to submit app review?
This seems to have changed since the questions was asked.
Current status:
This edge is only available to a limited number of approved apps. Unapproved apps querying this edge will receive an empty data set in response. You cannot request access to this edge at this time.
developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/events/
I'm building an internal app for a client of mine (an ad agency) who wants to do ad performance reporting for about 30 of their clients. Part of this project is to pull down performance metrics from Facebook Ads for these 30 clients.
I've created a Facebook App and got a development token. With this token, I've been able to get the technical part of the project working -- I can pull down the metrics just fine using Facebook's Marketing API.
My question is about authorization and authentication. I'm thoroughly confused by Facebook's mechanisms for this.
What do I need to do to get access to Marketing API metrics for these 30 clients?
Do I need to publish a Facebook App? If so, do I need to go through the approval process? This seems kind of crazy because Facebook wants a login so they can test things out, but the product is strictly internal so there's really nothing they can log in and see.
I guess another question is: Is there another way I can get access to these 30 clients? With Google Adwords, it was easy. I just used oauth and am granted access as needed. Is there a simple way like that with the Facebook Marketing API?
You need to submit your app for review, if you want to be able to ask all users for the permission.
If your app is used by a limited number of people only, that you can add to a role in the app - then they can be asked for all permissions, even without review. This is mainly for testing purposes, but Facebook has it documented as a kind of “loophole” for apps that are only used by a limited user base. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/faq#faq_180362122361921
We’re developing the application for managing news feeds, and we’ve planned to use users’ republications on Facebook for collecting and sorting news from different sources. Our app can be used as Facebook application, as traditional web site, and also can be accessed from other social network websites (vk.com, twitter).
Does it violate the rules of using read_stream (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.2#reference-read_stream) permissions? If so, is it possible to use permission only on Facebook application only? I’m asking because this feature is very crucial for our future development.
Thanks in advance…
As it says in the article you posted, you will most likely not get read_stream approved at all for your case:
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.
Is there a way for me to test permissions that are not yet granted to my app by Facebook like the "user_status" permission? I need to test "user_status" for a future app that is not yet in develop since I need to prove that what the client wants is possible.
As long as you are testing with an app admin/tester/developer, everything should work, even if the app didn't pass the facebook Review yet.
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/login#do-you-need-review
However, in order to help you craft your Facebook Login experience, your app's developers will be able to see, and grant, any permission without requiring review by Facebook.
Note: 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.
Also, if you're the developer of an app and are the only person using it, then your app doesn't need to go through review. Since you're the developer, all app capabilities should be available. You will still need to take your app out of developer mode, but you should be able to do that without going through review.