I'm an admin for my Facebook and tried to add myself as a test user as well. After confirming and inputting my password and completely shut me out of my app and I can't get back in. Neither can he other admins.
How can we restore our app, it doesn't appear anything broke and the app still exists. Just no one can get into it.
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So I've seen many related questions but they all date from years ago (Facebook SDK changes constantly) and mine is more specific.
I'm building a web app which requires authentication and Facebook API is one of its auth solutions and I'm trying to catch some scenarios. So as I asked earlier, what happens when someone removes my app from Facebook via the "Apps and websites" settings and tries to reconnect in my app ?
It might seem obvious to some that the user wouldn't get logged in because as far as I know in 2021, FB SDK uses an app specific ID for each user which gets generated when logging in for the first time and is useless when the user removes the app from his settings because there's no more mapping between the ID and the user.
But I've experienced in an app that I used (ometv kinda similar to omegle) that they log you in even after you delete them from the Facebook settings.
Thanks for considering my question.
EDIT: This is the edge case that I'm referring to from facebook dev
Someone removes your app from Facebook via app settings and revisits your app. Your app should detect this and prompt the person
to log back in. Go to your app and tap on the "Log in with Facebook”
button Tap OK to accept the read permissions (and OK again to accept
write permissions where applicable) Go to app settings on Facebook and
remove your app Repeat steps 1-2 and verify that Facebook Login works
A more specific question that I might ask would be whether or not a user can bypass this behavior ?
Our company's Facebook app was deleted mistakenly by an employee. It was the kind of app that appears inside Facebook. We were using it's AppId for the "Login with Facebook" purposes. And it was deleted using Facebook's control panel.
This is not about a rewrite, we have not lost any code. We have lost the login ids of the already present clients. They are not able to login now. Even if we create a new app, that would not help to get existing clients back. They would need to again create account and all the past information would be lost.
Can you please help us to recover it?
Fortunately, the developer facebook app which was deleted by mistake has been recovered. I found this link which contained my deleted apps:
https://developers.facebook.com/appeal/
It showed me an option to restore the app. I pressed the restore button, then facebook send a confirmation email to the registered email id. Once I clicked the confirm button in that email, I got my facebook developer app back.
When a user is not logged in and they navigate to a page tab made with our app, they get an obtrusive dialog asking them to log in:
This has nothing to do with http vs https, the app is not in sandbox mode, there is nothing in the tab asking for a login or user information, etc. I've gone through the app settings at least a half dozen times now, and nothing is wrong there. Aside of urls, the settings are identical to another app I have that does not suffer from this problem. I'm stumped!
Edit: here is an affected tab: https://www.facebook.com/StaticHtmlThunderpenny/app_203351739677351
This message is not about login to your app, but Facebook in general.
So my guess would be that the page your app is installed as page tab app on is restricted in some way – by age, location, or for having alcohol-related content. And then of course Facebook asks for login, because otherwise they can not determine whether or not the (as of now still “anonymous”) user qualifies to see the page.
So go check the page settings.
This is actually not app related question.
This is thumb rule!! To access any app on Facebook, you need to log in to Facebook. You can see Facebook page without log in. But for facebook apps, you should be authentic user.
with this issue in my own experience that I came across some years back with a facebook app that I was running, if this doesn't relate to any of your other social networking apps then am aligning two set of possibilities and solution.
The user might have not properly logged out as "written" in the app for the users logout stage.
Solution would be that the user logout as expected before closing the app.
The user might have set up an automatic login prompt which was removed by the app when it was been updated automatically. (If you do get me???)
Solution would be to monitise your app on updates and login informations or better still just login and logout ask intended by the app and for security reasons.
Lastly I would say that automatic bookmark database should be added to the server part so current pages as the user uses the app would be saved after logout or login stage. Thank you, hope this helps and if not let me know what am missing.
I'm sure this is something blindingly obvious, but I can't work it out.
I've added an admin and a tester user to my app (and I mean they're real people as opposed to the generated random named user that FB offers) but after a couple of weeks they're still listed as '(pending)' and they're unable to login to the web page that I've written using their Facebook account. OAuth responds with an error:
Sorry, this feature isn't available right now: An error occurred while processing this request. Please try again later.
I appear to be able to login just fine and can test the [currently] limited functions.
Our web page is right at the beginning of development but it's now at the stage where I'd like real people to mess around on the page and give me feedback.
The two users haven't received any messages - I sort of expected they'd get something in their inbox asking to confirm their role with the app.
So how do I go about getting real people to be test users? Have I missed the point of the test user role?
As of this writing (things change), have the Facebook user go to https://developers.facebook.com/requests/
They will need to be logged in to Facebook.
There should be listed one or more pending requests that they will need to confirm. If the Confirm button(s) is disabled, they may need to register as a Facebook Developer before the Confirm buttons are enabled.
I need to add another admin to my FB app (however, I also tried this with developer and test roles).
I paste their name, and press Send. Facebook closes window and proceeds to quickly "flash" a colored box that pushes my own admin box down (as if a box for another role was created), but it's immediately removed (hence the flash). No error message is displayed, but the role wasn't added either.
Coincidentally: Not the first weird problem I had with FB, FB refused to allow me to display app lists/add app with my company's account, and only allowed it on my personal account. They don't answer support requests either. Bleh.
First make sure the other person has verified their account.
I worked around this by entering their numeric facebook ID into the developer app. Apparently it's unable to work with email or custom name.
Go to http://graph.facebook.com/their_facebook_name and copy the number after "id":. Put that in the box. Presto.
I don't think this is a chance occurrence because the problem also appeared when I created a new app using the coworker's account and tried to add myself as the second admin.
Shame on you, Facebook.