I use the Facebook API and an app to automatically post to a Facebook page up to three times a day. These public posts contain recent changes from my CMS, and the "app backend" is written in PHP.
Currently, Facebook asks all app developers to submit their apps for a review. This looks pretty difficult to me, as the data to be submitted should contain a screencast. But there is nothing I could show in such a screencast, as there is only sourcecode creating new posts...
Facebook pages API: "Page Public Content Access" review screencast was an interesting starting point: just don't use a public app, but keep it in development mode. I changed the mode from live to dev, and all posts that were created in the last months vanished from my page. I could see them, logged in with my own account, but neither logged out nor using another account :( Is there anything I forgot to change?
Just do a screencast of how the server is posting after some event or timeout.
Can you trigger some event on your server and show that new post was created after that? This should be enough for review.
After several months of trying, finally manage to pass this review for manage_pages and publish_pages permissions. Important keyword is "server to server application".
Here is what I wrote for both permissions:
You can refer to this page for more details:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/server-to-server-apps/sample-submission
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I have a pre-existing Facebook Business Page set up on Facebook and I just registered my website (App) on the Facebook Developers Console using the same Business name as the Facebook Page name. I am an admin on both the App account and the Business Page. My app is also on the list of “subscribed apps” for the Page. Even still, Facebook doesn’t see the app and page as the same business, and I still don’t see my page in the “App Pages” section of my App Settings like it says I should.
Ultimately, my goal is to be able to establish a communication between my web server and my Facebook Page in order to READ posts on my page using the Graph API. However, when I try accessing the page node or any of its edges using my App Token (via Graph Explorer OR my web server), it’s telling me I need an App review before I can read the public data on my own Facebook page.
My guess is that this is happening because there is still no established connection between the app and the page... and if that’s the case, what more can I do to make the connection? Anyone have any experience with this?
FYI: I’ve read many other posts on this issue and most of them are outdated or don’t give any clear answers to the question. I feel this question is valid due to the privacy changes introduced by Facebook last March.
You need to have your App reviewed, older apps work till August 2018. But as now every review takes a month and there is high change that you are not approved for "Page Public Content Access". Reason for approve denial is "it doesn't appear to enhance the user experience". And after that, there is not much you can do. You can make another app and submit it to the review, with info that might pass the review process.
As for now, i do not know the correct phrases to use in review-form, but if some-one gets "Page Public Content Access"-approval, please let us know how.
I own a blog like website, and as part of promotions I have a corresponding facebook page. My website contents are dynamic & when it gets updated(through a bot), I want the facebook page also to be updated by an automated post/publish from the bot which shows up the updates to the page viewers.
I could create a facebook page, and my bot programme which updates the web content is also able to publish the content on my facebook page using graph apis. But the posts are not publicly visible(Visible to only me/admin).
I could learn that it could be because my app through which my bot program is publishing to my facebook page is not public.
App->Status & Review, Status (Tab)
(Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public?).
To make the app public, there is a review process which checks the facebook login button used in the website but my posts are through a backend bot and not through user action. My website is like a blog without user authentication so can't think of adding a login there.
Is it possible without having user login on the page? Also, If I post using twitter apis and link/configure my twitter account to my facebook page, it works.I guess this is not a new problem and many brands have automated it already, so need to understand how.
Am I missing something?
Apologies: I have checked previous posts on the same topic, but couldn't find relevant answers for the current Facebook version & policies.
Without the Login Review process, your posts can not be visible to the public.
To get it working, just send your page management tool (with the login dialog) for the review. Once they review it and accepted, you may change the flow a bit eg: skip the login part and allow auto posting.
I have a facebook user who is the owner of the company I work for. He has a single Facebook page, which is the "company page" on Facebook. He created a FB "app" with permissions "manage_pages" and "publish_actions". So the FB api can post to his FB Page, on his behalf, as the app.
Inside the company, we have a few hundred people that use an intranet-based software app. When the users engage in a certain function in the software, the code uses the Facebook API to post a message to the public company page using an access token of the FB account of the company owner. This system works great, but the app is not yet approved, so no one can actually see the posts on the FB page except the company owner.
The software is only available inside the company building, it's not reachable via the Internet. There would be serious intellectual property concerns with allowing an anonymous facebook employee into it. There would be security concerns about making this all public on the web. So I have to presume that FB will not be able to see the backend here - where the posts are created.
So because of this, I've run into problems getting the app reviewed because I have no way to let Facebook reviewers actually see the software where the user creates the post, as they requested.
Is this considered a non-starter setup by FB, or does FB have any contingency for this situation? Or do they expect every FB app to be used in a completely public environment? I'm just thinking surely I'm not the only person trying to use a FB app to post to a company page from a publicly-inaccessible place inside that company?
Thanks!
This was the answer to the problem, thank you CBroe: It is not a matter of approval that makes the app's postings viewable by everybody, but simply of the app still being in development mode.
The actual Facebook gui in the app dashboard doesn't say "development mode" on/off like it used to. It now says "do you want to make this app live to the public". I selected "yes" which made the app's postings viewable by everybody.
In my case, the original confusion stemmed from the fact that we didn't want to make the app live to the public, we only want our one company owner to use the app - so we naturally did not change that setting to "live".
I just created last week an App and I've read that offline access doesn't work with newly created apps.(I haven't found any tutorial on the web. I am really new to facebook apps)
with this new change in facebook, I don't know how to use the current thing.
I badly need this feature because I don't want the user keeps logging-in in facebook everytime he visits and posts a status in my site as well in his facebook wall. I just want the user to be stayed connected and be able to post on his wall automatically thru my site once he authorized my app.
Thank you.
There are very clear and simple instructions on the following documentation to explain what you need to do to switch to long-life access tokens:
https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/
Also, from your description, it sounds like you are spamming and breaking Facebook Platform Policies. Users will hate any app that automatically posts on their behalf, so I recommend you do not do that, as either people will stop using your app or they'll report it and it'll get banned.
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!