I have install app to private group, after app preview app has following permissions:
groups_access_member_info
public_profile
email
Groups API
After app installation to group I'm able to call groupID/feed and I can see posts and comments that I have made (I'm group admin) including my user object. My goal is to see which user made comment with its id, name etc. In access token debugger it has all permissions. App is already in live mode with Business Verification. I tried to find answer in documentation but according to documentation app has all required permissions.I also tried to remove and install app again to group but it works the same way.
Is there any way how to deal with this issue ?
Thanks in advance
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I made a website using Django.
The only way to log into it is the facebook login.
When I had to submit my app for review in the facebook developer console. They are asking me testing id and password. Since the only way to login is facebook, and it won't work till they test.
And they are asking how to open this website for testing. It's kind of a loop.
Is there another way out?
I don't want to use other ways of logging in (is in accordance with my idea)
I believe you can test your app with your own login credentials according to Facebook:
You do not need to submit your app if it will only be used in
Development Mode by you or someone with a role on your app. Any
account listed in the Roles tab in your App Dashboard, such as admins,
developers, and testers, can use all permissions but will only be able
to access their own data, that of test users, and test pages belonging
to them.
You can use any of these accounts to test your app and create a
screencast.
See this similar answer.
I am making a server-to-server Facebook 'app' so that some of the news articles we post to our own website can be posted on our own Facebook page too. I have read 14 squintillion pages of documentation, but cannot find how to get the publish_pages permission for myself or the app.
I have coaxed the app through the review process, and got the manage_pages permission allowed. I thought I had to submit all over again, to get publish_pages too, but the documentation says no. Apparently anyone appearing in the Roles for the app can grant the necessary permissions.
I have set myself up as admin for the app, yet when trying to get a token using the Facebook developer tools, I am never shown publish_pages. So even if I create a non-expiring token (my end goal) it is rejected with a message about the lack of publish_pages.
Shouldn't I be seeing more permissions listed here?
I'm sure I've read all relevant parts of the official documentation, plus StackOverflow answers and several unofficial walk-throughs, but I cannot work out what I am missing...
I thought I had to submit all over again, to get publish_pages too,
You do.
but the documentation says no. Apparently anyone appearing in the Roles for the app can grant the necessary permissions.
That is for apps in dev mode. Any of those users can grant the permission to your app, while it is in dev mode. But whatever you publish through your app, will only be visible to this group of users only, and not to the general public.
For the content to be visible to everyone, your app needs to be in live mode.
Before you can ask people - even those with a role in the app - for publish_pages when your app is in live mode, you need to submit that permission for review.
My app integrates Facebook login with the following permissions :user_education_history and user_work_history. The app was working just fine until today morning when I attempt to login I get the following error:
invalid scopes: user_education_history, user_work_history. This message is only shown to developers other app users will ignore these permissions if present.
I went through the docs and I discovered that they were deprecated on the 4th of this month but I cannot seem to find the new permissions for the education and the work history ... any help ?
Facebook is removing access to a lot of things as a result of recent negative press surrounding data mining of their users. In almost all cases the information is simply no longer available, there is no alternative method to access it.
More information is available in the Facebook developer blog:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/04/facebook-api-platform-product-changes/
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/24/new-facebook-platform-product-changes-policy-updates
Note that the message you mention is only shown to Facebook accounts with developer credentials. Regular Facebook users don't see this message and the Facebook API simply ignores requests for scopes which are no longer allowed. If the data being requested are optional in the context of the app, you should create a test Facebook account and see how it behaves when requesting the data doesn't return anything (or causes unexpected errors).
I want to post to facebook company-page via a developer-app. Therefore I created an app and also an access-token with the following permissions:
manage_pages, pages_show_list, publish_pages, public_profile
Posts are successfully created on the company-page via the app.
The problem I have is the following:
Customer is posting on the companies page.
Answer from the company is posted via the api (app).
The customer sees that there is an comment to his initial post but he cannot see the content of the reply.
I'm pretty sure my access-token is missing some permission but I could not find anything related in the facebook api documentation. Or am I wrong and there is another problem?
Make sure the App is public in the App settings: App Review > "Your app is in development and unavailable to the public."
Postings of Development-Apps usually don´t show up for regular users.
The flow I'm going for is:
User signs in with Facebook to our site.
User pays a fee using PayPal or some similar service.
User is allowed access to a particular Facebook group.
I'm not particularly fussy about how the process works, but I'd like to avoid a manual step if possible.
I know I can't invite them using the Graph API (as they're not an admin, developer or tester of the app). But is there some other way round? A button that allows them to request access that I then confirm using the API? An automatic way of emailing an invite?
Or is there a way of making it easier to do the manual step? Some way of listing the new users with an "invite to group" button? A friend request button for the user to press?
With facebook API you can't do this with a normal group, but you can use app groups instead. To create an app group, you have to do a POST request to this url:
http://graph.facebook.com/{your-app-id}/groups
with the following informations:
valid app access token
name: the name of the group
description: the description of the group
privacy: enum, it can be open or closed
admin: admin's user id
Then you will recive a gropu ID. You can get info about your group ith a GET request to this URL:
http://graph.facebook.com/{group-id}
EDITED: You can no longer add members with POST request, but there is an another way.
New solution
You can use a client-side dialog to add members to groups. You can find the documentation here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/app-game-groups/v2.0#add_user
I tested it with a user who wasn't a tester, andd it works fine.
Old solution (no longer available)
You can add members to this group with a POST request to this URL:
http://graph.facebook.com/{group-id}/members
You have to post:
valid app access token
member: user ID of the person to invite
The person will recive something like this image:
(source: edemmester.hu)
I tested it, it works fine.
More info about app groups: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/app/groups
IMPORTANT! You have to use app access tokens here, not user access tokens.
I don't think it's possible to invite people without writing a browser extension that has access to the cookies etc. of the logged-in group admin.
Anyway, you cannot simply add people to a group if you're not friends with them, but need to invite them by email. So probably it's easiest if you ask them for their email-address and then invite them by email.