I want permission to read stream of the user so that I can keep track of likes, comments and shares of user post but facebook is not letting me the permission with the reason that "The read_stream permission is only granted for apps building a Facebook-branded client on platforms where Facebook is not already available. ", but what if I have a facebook app which requires the permission to read stream. pls help
You can´t get read_stream approved. period.
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.
Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.2#reference-read_stream
You can only try to get user_status approved and use /me/statuses - but you will only get posts of the user that way, not posts of his friends.
Edit: There is a new permission called "user_posts" that may be sufficient for you, check it out in the changelog: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_3_new_features
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I'm trying to make an app that will allow blog posts from my website to be published to a Facebook page which I am the admin of.
Obviously I need the publish_pages and manage_pages permission to do this and I need to provide a screencast showing how these permissions will be used.
From my understanding, I can still publish a post from my website to my Facebook page while the app is in development mode as long as I am the admin of the page (which I am) but the posts won't be visible to the public.
So I complete the authentication process here (see below).
Finally I add my blog post. However, I then get the following as an error message
"(#200) The permission(s) publish_actions are not available. It has been deprecated. If you want to provide a way for your app users to share content to Facebook, we encourage you to use our Sharing products instead."
Would this be an issue with the system I am using, making a depreciated API call?
Deprecation:
The publish_actions permission will be deprecated. This permission granted apps access to publish posts to Facebook as the logged in user. Apps created from today onwards will not have access to this permission. Apps created before today that have been previously approved to request publish_actions can continue to do so until August 1, 2018. No further apps will be approved to use publish_actions via app review. Developers currently utilizing publish_actions are encouraged to switch to Facebook's Share dialogs for web, iOS and Android.
From now on you can only publish to your own facebook profile not facebook page. For more information you can visit their official documentation
If a user is to authorize an app to read their own posts, what Facebook permission does that app need? read_stream ?
According to Facebook docs, read_stream is not granted to normal apps, and only to Facebook-branded apps on platforms where Facebook is not available (tldr; no one will ever get this permission any more).
What is the alternative for normal Facebook apps? can we not read a user's wall anymore through apps? (I remember this was possible before)
To get a users posts you can use user_status permission that is explained at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.2#reference-user_status
Can i get read_stream, publish_actions and user_photos permissions for my TV app? There is no other official Facebook client present in my TV.
I already have my Facebook app running with all these permissions. I need to upgrade my app with graph API 2.2. But due to version and changes in permissions, I am not clear whether I will get approval for these permissions.
About read_stream:
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.
Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.2#reference-read_stream
If you get the other permissions approved only depends on your implementation. For example, you are not allowed to prefill the message (or the photo caption) if you want to post something with publish_actions.
I created facebook app for my website & To enriches the user's experience i need extended permissions from facebook for my app ( which includes read_stream with some other permission ) , i have submitted the app for reviews with valid description but submission were not approved and i could not find any valid reason for that.
I noticed this description in read_stream -- 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. , can you please explain meaning of this ?
Here is my reference site - https://hootsuite.com/ , they are using read_stream as well.
Hootsuite is using a v1.0 App created before v2.0 was introduced. It will stop working for them after April 2015, when they have to go through the review process too. You will not get read_stream approved for your website, as you can read in the quote you posted.
Meaning, you can only use read_stream in an App created before end of April 2014, and only until end of April 2015. Not worth using it anymore imho.
It's all in the docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.2#reference-read_stream
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.
So, I strongly doubt that you'll receive this permission during app review.
Now someone can use "user_posts" permission - This new permission allows an app to access the posts on a person's Timeline. This includes the someone's own posts, posts they are tagged in and posts other people make on their Timeline.
This is a useful alternative to News Feeds.
Previously, this content was accessible with the read_stream permission. The user_posts permission is automatically granted to anyone who previously had read_stream permission.
Facebook Platform Changelog
Getting some conflicting information from Facebook currently on whether or not the read_stream permission is actually deprecated for non-Facebook branded apps moving forward. I know recently the change was made to require app-specific access tokens for read-stream permissions.
In the Facebook graph explorer it looks as though my existing application which was already granted an app-specific access token for the read_stream persmission is still providing access to the [user-id]/posts endpoint, although I also noticed that searching for this endpoint in the reference takes you now to [user-id]/feed, which also requires the read_stream permission.
When searching the read_stream permission in the reference however, it now reads:
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.
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Wondering if anyone from Facebook or outside can actually confirm that this endpoint is now closed to 3rd-party apps, and if there is any explanation whatsoever for why?
Now someone can use "user_posts" permission - This new permission allows an app to access the posts on a person's Timeline. This includes the someone's own posts, posts they are tagged in and posts other people make on their Timeline.
This is a useful alternative to News Feeds.
Previously, this content was accessible with the read_stream permission. The user_posts permission is automatically granted to anyone who previously had read_stream permission.
Facebook Platform Changelog