I'm in the early stages of building a complex application that will tie into Facebook to customize a story using a Facebook user's personal information. I've successfully been able to request basic permissions, grab their name, and include it in the story.
I'm at the point now where I'd like to include some of the user's photos as well, but I'm running into problems with permissions. When I try to get an access_token using user_photos, I'm told that:
"The following permissions have not been approved for use and will not be shown to people using [APPNAME]: user_photos. Submit them for review or learn more."
If I have a look at my Facebook app settings page, I'm told the approval process can take up to 7 days and requires screenshots, and instructions how a reviewer can test my implementation of the desired permissions.
I don't understand how this is supposed to work. It seems like a chicken and egg situation. How can I build my application if I don't have permission to access any photos through the API? How can they test and determine if they want to give me permissions if I can't build the app they need to test?
Is there some testing or development mode I'm missing? Is there a test user I can use? I've tried creating a testing/development version of the application and granting permissions with an admin user, and still no dice.
Thanks for any help.
That is just a warning. You can always ask any user that have a role on the app for any permission
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I've written a Python script to pull performance metrics data from the Facebook Graph API for a connected Instagram Business account. It's a script which runs locally and uses my account's credentials.
I've submitted an App Review selecting "No" and "App doesn't use the Facebook Login dialog." for the "Is a Facebook reviewer able to access or login to your app to verify you're using permissions or features according to Facebook Platform Policy?" and "Why isn't a Facebook reviewer able to access or install your app? Select the option(s) that best describe the functionality of your integration." questions.
However, it's been rejected with the following reason given:
"We found that your app's test credentials did not allow us to fully review the content of the app or there were no test credentials provided for us to review. If your test credentials do allow access, check that the account is setup properly to provide us with full access and to allow us to reproduce the use case steps."
I followed the steps from the Server-to-Server App Sample Submission. I've explained why each permission is required and uploaded a screencast of accessing the relevant endpoints.
Is there something I'm missing?
I want to use the facebook Login for a school project.
Apart from his/her public profile, I also need to get his/her likes.
The only way facebook lets you do that, is by submitting a review form in which I have to enter information that I don't know. I can't even fill out the URL of my website since I only host it locally.
Is there a way that you can access those permissions without having to submit those review forms for educational purposes?
Thanks.
It's possible to use the extended permissions even without Login Review, but only if
People listed in the Roles section of your App Dashboard - including Admins, Developers and Testers - can grant any permission without review. If only people in these Roles will use your app, you don't need to submit it for Login Review.
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/faq#login_review
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 have a desktop app which uses a user access token to read the me/feed endpoint and I can see all the posts for the logged in user. If I wanted to simplify deployment to different users I would need to minimise the amount of setup/configuration they did.
Is there a way to access me/feed for a given userid rather than have to setup every user as a developer account and create an app for it?
I have looked at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.0 and it is not obvious to me how to do this.
What configuration / permissions does the user in question need to do to activate this. Which access token should I be using, and will it give access to all the posts in the same way the user access token does.
[EDIT] I have looked at this again and the problem I am having is that when a user (who has a facebook account but is NOT a developer) tries to login to my App (which is in development mode) I get the following error
"App Not Setup: The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login."
Thanks in advance