The problem is that I can't get info about this page https://www.facebook.com/WonderfulPosts/ using my application.
I have tried to do that in graph API sandbox and from my web page but still nothing.
I did some research and find out that if page blocked for US region I can't get it. We are using gcloud server with us-central1 zone I think this is a part of a problem.
According to page owner words, he blocked this page in some regions but NOT for US.
But for example, this service can get page info without problems with any regional settings http://findmyfbid.com/
Is it Facebook app settings or some server settings problem? I can't understand
If the Page is restricted by age or location, you need to use a User Token (of a User who is able to see the Page), or a Page Token (if you own the Page).
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Thank you very much for visiting this topic. Currently I'm working on a smaller application that can be installed on facebook pages (not accounts, but separately created pages, like company or fan pages on facebook). I managed to fire up the php SDK for it, even made successful user authentications and played around with access tokens (only user access tokens though).
However my problems arose when I've tried to determine if the current user is an administrator for that facebook page (where the application is installed).
I've done numerous google searches and research into this topic, but sadly I've realised that most tutorials, questions or related topics are all outdated, or they have obsolete solutions.
I kept running into the 'manage-pages' permission when people advised me to go for page access tokens. However in my opinion asking facebook to grant me manage-pages permission, then prompting users to allow me access to everything on their pages during authentication seems a bit far fetched.
I do not want to modify or read their page contents in any way. I simply want a mini admin page for the application that can be opened by only users that are admins of that certain page.
I've seen an edit url that can be added in the settings of the application. However I could not find out what it does, or how can I access it if I add an url there. The related documentation on facebook seems to be out of date.
I would be very grateful if someone can point me in the right direction with this. Basically I'm looking for a method, that does not require me to use the 'manage_pages' permission, but I can still check out if the current user viewing the installed application on the page is an admin or not. (I wonder if facebook supports an other method for this)
Thank you very much for any kind of tips or aid in this matter!
Facebook never gives of fan pages or other pages access.
You have to communicate with facebook page admin and its give a token.
Suppose if you have a permission than it generated token will be you use in your application
how do you do?
1 communicate with admin.
2 Admin generat token from https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
3 go to tools and support than it generated token you use in your application.
Note: "Page of admin can it do to generate token"
I've created them via the FB Developer's Dashboard, taking care to enable each's access to my app.
When I log in as the test user and attempt to navigate to the published FB page that hosts my FB chatbot, I get the error: "Sorry, this content isn't available right now. The link you followed may have expired, or the page may only be visible to an audience you're not in."
Docs say CLI tools are required to associate a test user with another app, but that (in my reading), the Dashboard works to grant access to the current app, including the page that hosts it.
I'm using HybridAuth with Laravel. How can I allow the user to choose a (different) Facebook account after logging out of my UI?
Currently, when the user logs out then in, it auto logs them into my site because they have received a token previously. They are not given an option to log into a Facebook account. Therefore, the user can only use one Facebook account with my site, ever. I tried deleting session data as well as $hybridAuth->logoutAllProviders(); and it still happens.
I could set the Force Web OAuth Reauthentication setting in Facebook for my app, but I don't want the user to log into Facebook every time they visit my site. I would like them to be able to switch Facebook accounts they want to use with my site.
I get expected behavior when logging as a Google user. Thanks for any advice!
I am developing a backoffice server application wich is supposed to email our customers with ads campaign statitistics, where camapaigns are bundled from various providers, one of them being Facebook.
Now the problem is how to download specific ads campaigns from Facebook. Basically what I need is a table for specific campaign with values for impressions and clicks for each day from requested range.
One problem is that the application is background server process, running periodically without user interactions, so I suspect there could be a problem with authentication.
From what I have read so far, I believe I am supposed to
register my application on facebook
apply for Ads API access (?)
use either legacy REST API to get statistics, or perhaps adsstatistics from graph api (but I believe that the format there is not divided for particular days).
How am I supposed to authenticate in this case?
Any suggestion as to what is the right solution here?
(Note: In the past, I was doing similiar for Google, where I have successfully used http://code.google.com/intl/cs/apis/adwords/docs/guides/reporting.html - this is just for reference about what I need to achieve).
See this page for authentication once you have Ads API access:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
In the end you'll need an access_token which is specific to your application and the Facebook account you are accessing.
Here's our process:
Log into Facebook account that contains the ads data
Paste this into that browser's address bar:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id={your_application_id}&scope=ads_management,offline_access,read_insights&redirect_uri={your
website}
You should be taken to a page that allows you to
authorize your application for that Facebook account (green
Allow button)
Copy the authorization code that appears after code= in the redirected url
Paste this into that browser's address bar (you may not have a client_secret with your application, if you don't try this without the client_secret):
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={your_application_id}&redirect_uri={your website}&client_secret={your application secret}&code={code you got
from step 4}
You should be taken to a page containing the access_token
I do not think you need to store the Authorization code since the access_token shouldn't expire (if you requested offline_access) unless the log in info is changed for the Facebook Account.
Stats Retrieval
For stats retrieval, I would not use legacy REST API since Facebook will depreciate it. Graph API does allow stats retrieval by day, use:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/stats/{starttime}/{endtime}/stats?ids={campaign_id}&access_token=...
starttime and endtime can be in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format or as a unix (epoch?) time
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but I was unable to find an answer to what seems a simple question. I have an app that is authorized to a user & user's fan page via a process from a website I've constructed. The process is this:
Visit Website --> authorize website to view list of fan pages --> Select Fan Page to install app to --> Authorize app to user account --> Authorize app to Fan Page
I've got all that working (a process, let me tell you), and everything functions as intended. I'm working on an admin interface to manage the app which is not housed in the Canvas App location but on the website itself. I haven't found a way to figure out if the app is installed or not. It appears that the Graph API / FQL doesn't support this.
My two issues are:
I have the user id & the fan page id but I can't figure out whether said fan page has my app authorized or not. Depending on this answer will determine whether I show the "Install This App" panel or the Administration panel.
I've read that the best method is to store the userid when the app is initially authorized, but after the app is authorized, the user is sent to the Fan Page's Wall and I can't figure out how to notify my iframe app.
[edit] I misunderstood your question and thought you had less implemented than you seem to have: If you have manage_pages permission for a user, you can get the Page access token for each of their pages, and access a list of apps currently installed as tabs on that page - the instructions are at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#tabs
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Each request made to your app's 'page tab url' will include a signed_request parameter.
The method to decode it is explained at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/ - when your app is loaded on a page tab you'll get the 'page' parameter.
So:
The first time the tab provided by your app is loaded on a new page, you can detect the page ID from the signed request.
This callback will also tell you if the user currently looking at the page tab is an admin of that page (which can be useful for your own edit interface, if applicable)
If you haven't already got an interface where the app user tells you which pages they admin you can get a list of all the pages that user administers by accessing the 'accounts' property on their user object (/me/accounts in the Graph API) once you have the manage_pages permission
can you keep track of who has the app authorized in a database on your website?
i.e. call a script on your website server from your app that returns whether or not the user has authorized the app.