I'd like to develop a Facebook app that reads statuses posted by a user's friends. However, it seems that I can only read friends' statuses if they've given the app a user_friends permission. So, to test my app before I actually release it to my friends, it seems I'll need to set up a test account, set up a friend relationship between that account and my account, and then have the test account give the app permission.
Is making a second account for this purpose allowed under the TOS?
Facebook has a tool (and API) for generating test users for your app, which you can find in your app's dashboard's "Roles" tab.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/test-users#managetool
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I created a facebook app (which is currently in dev stage, hence not approved by FB yet).
I need to get the daily ads insights reports for all my customers, so I need them to grant access for my app (ads_read).
I do not understand and cannot find it in the documentation, how do I get my customers to grant me (my app) access to their ads accounts.
Do I need to setup a Business Manager?
thanks
I tried using app token but it only accesses my accounts
There are two options:
Add them to your App as Test Users, so they can use the permissions without review
Go through review with the neccessary permissions
An App Token does not have any relation to a User, so you cannot even get access to your own Ads with that one. You are probably talking about a User or Page Token.
More information about Tokens: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/
I am creating an app that only a specific list of users will use, and I need Instagram Public Content Access permission (and some other permissions) for them (I have my Instagram Business Account all set up and connected with Facebook page).
On https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/review/examples/#screencast there is stated:
You do not need to submit your app if it will only be used by you or
by a reduced number of people. Any account listed in the Roles tab in
your App Dashboard, such as admins, developers and testers, can access
all permissions and generate a user or page access token.
So I just want to make sure, that it is completely fine in my case to keep my app in development mode and let my users use it like this (so I don't need to submit my app for review as long as all the users are going to have their role assigned in my app), and that these permissions are not intended just for a limited time period or only for testing/development purposes.
Thank you for any answer.
What you quoted there, is applicable to permissions your app is going to ask its users to grant to it.
Instagram Public Content Access is not a permission, it is a feature. You need to get it reviewed, if you want your app to be able to access content that the users of your app do not have admin access to.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/feature/#reference-INSTAGRAM_PUBLIC_CONTENT_ACCESS
Hi I try to make the "publish_actions" feature of my web app approved but I cannot get it approved cause facebook approval system keeps asking me to include screenshot of working features.
However, I cannot provide such screenshot because the "publish_actions" feature is not approved yet.
How is it called? A catch 22 or an Chicken-Egg-dilema? Anyways...
Where should I start?
(I already tried with a test user and a developper account, both in live or developper mode)
Thanks to anyone that can help
You can create test users, or add users as "Testers" or above in your App's "Roles" tab in the developer area of Facebook.
If your app is interacting with a test user or any user with an assigned role in your app, it may request permissions that have not been granted yet by Facebook for public use. There's no trick or workaround; just simply request the permissions like you normally would for any other user.
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.
I can't seem to get my app approved on facebook for photo approval. The problem is that Facebook says I haven't demonstrated how my app use photos so they can't approve that permission. However I can't show them how my app uses photos because its not approved for users to give that permission! Its a catch-22.
I need to give facebook an account that they can use to connect to my app and see how I pull in user photos. The website is already built using the PHP SDK and its configured to redirect the user to facebook's oauth page where they are prompted for permission. However at this point any username except mine (the developer) sees this:
The following permissions have not been approved for use and are not being shown to people using your app: user_photos.
Submit them for review or learn more.
So therefore the account cannot grant photo permissions and the app doesn't work right. So facebook won't approve it. How do you get around this catch-22? Things I've tried:
Creating a facebook test user through their dashboard, it still doesn't have permission to grant photo access
Creating a real facebook account, uploading photos, and then making that user an "administrator" of my app. Still cannot grant photo access.
This is very frusterating, anyone have any ideas?
Your App must be created before 30 April 2014 then use it in facebook
Like your AppName Huus then it is created before 30 April 2014 in facebook
This all means you haven't created a test user correctly. If you create a test user from
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/{your-app-id}/roles/test-users/ (App Settings > Roles > Test Users), the user will have access to any and every permission, even if they've not been approved by Facebook.
When asking for permission, I got no error or warning about unapproved permissions.
I was able to create a test user for my app, logged in and was able to access unapproved permissions. Screenshot is proof.