Post Open Graph Action using the App Access Token - facebook

Question

I am trying to post an action using Facebook Open Graph API based on the Facebook documentation. When I do the following :
curl -X POST \
"https://graph.facebook.com/app/myNamespace:myAction" \
-F "access_token=$APP_TOKEN" \
-F "myObject=https://myhost.com/objectid"
I get the following error :
{"error":{"message":"(#200) Requires extended permission: publish_actions","type":"OAuthException","code":200}}
I have obtained a valid 'App Token' using this Faceboo documentation. The document states that actions can be published using App Tokens.
Btw, I am able to successfully post actions using user-access-token as follows :
curl -X POST \
'https://graph.facebook.com/me/myNamespace:myAction' \
-F 'myObject=https://myhost.com/' \
-F 'access_token=user-access-token'
Any Help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You're trying to post to an Open Graph action as the app, which is not possible.
Unfortunately, there is no documentation to that explictly says this, but here is someone who tried to do the same thing.
If you read the documentation you posted, you'll see two main points. First, app tokens are for publishing information on the feeds of user's who have given permission to the app to do so, and app tokens are for some other basic "maintenance" type stuff for the app itself. There is nothing in there that support the idea that app tokens can be used for anything like posting regular Open Graph actions.