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/
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Like many other developers, my FB app stopped working last week after Facebook blocked all apps using user_managed_groups permissions without review.
I have since submitted it for review. Has anyone been able to use user_managed_groups endpoint (groups/feed) after their app is approved?
Until further notice from Facebook, no one is able to access the Group API at the moment: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/04/facebook-api-platform-product-changes
Testing of our more robust process starts today and the new process
should resume in a few weeks, but apps currently accessing Events and
Groups APIs will lose access today.
App Review is on pause. You can only wait until Facebook put it back on.
We are currently adding Facebook integration to our product. I have set up our product as an app in the developer portal and have added myself as an administrator of that app. I am logging in to Facebook using the OAuth functionality for devices i.e. I'm posting to the "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/device/login" endpoint.
We specifically want to be able to upload videos using our app. I am therefore requesting the "publish_actions" permissions. Everything seems to work i.e. Facebook provides a device authentication code and I am able to poll until the user has accepted the request to add our app and once that is done, I receive back an access token.
The problem I am having is when I attempt to initiate a video upload by posting to the "https://graph-video.facebook.com/v2…/1533641336884006/videos" endpoint, I receive the error 200: "Subject does not have permission to post videos on this target". I can't find any information about what could be causing this in the developer documentation.
I understand that once the app integration is completed, I need to obtain permission to use "publish_actions" to allow it to work with Facebook accounts that are not administrators of the app, however I am trying to upload a video to my Facebook account, which is the administrator of the app.
It is my understanding that as long as you are the app administrator, Facebook does not need to approve "publish_actions" and I should be able to upload a video to my page. Indeed I need to be able to do this in order to complete the integration.
Can you advise on what might be going wrong?
Many thanks,
Damien
I'm working on a notification web-app that has a Post-to-Facebook feature. Until the (Graph) API v2.0, it worked great. A user would authenticate with their Facebook account, put their token into our app, and we'd use that to make posts to their wall/page for them when a new notification was sent.
We have applied for the permissions we need to use on Facebook's new API (publish_pages, publish_actions, manage_pages). We received a notice that our application was rejected, so we re-worded the same application for permissions to try to clarify what we use the permissions for, resubmitted it, but have been rejected again.
An app that does almost exactly the same thing we hope to do was granted these permissions (we know, because we both work with- and compete with- that app). Until we found out that that app can still publish posts to Facebook, we believed that all requests to repost/automatically post on users' behalfs were being denied because of a Facebook policy change.
We can't figure out who to contact or where to appeal the denial of these permissions. This probably isn't the right forum (since this isn't specifically a technical question about the API), but I can't see where to take this issue next.
Did you have a look at the Login Review FAQs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/review/faqs
or otherwise refer to
https://www.facebook.com/groups/fbdevelopers
I wish to access the user's unread Facebook messages in my app. I'm using the Accounts framework. Calling accountStore.requestAccessToAccountsWithType:options: requires the permissions be given as part of the options.
I want to access /{user-id}/inbox stated in their Graph API. This states that the read_mailbox permission is required. Reading the permissions page, it states:
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.
In other words: This is available to basically nobody.
After such a blow, I feel like I'm pulling at straws here, but I'm wondering if this applies to the Accounts framework login. Their API references the standard Facebook login (with a button and then a permissions screen) and doesn't mention login through the Accounts framework.
So I tried it, and got an iOS UIAlertView asking if I wanted to allow my app to access the given permissions, including the Inbox permission. I tapped "OK", and was granted access. But then calling accountsWithAccountType: returns 0 accounts (I have a Facebook account logged in on device).
I'm wondering if anyone's done any further investigation, or knows any more about this?
You should first try testing your app in the explorer https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ and see what comes up.
Additionally, since you have read the permission page, you will understand that it wouldn't make sense developing the app with this feature unless you are the only using it.
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.