I have some questions about facebook pages and their access tokens.
Right now i am trying to build a mobile app for my band and i want to have a function in it that allows users to either take a picture or choose from the phone gallery and upload it to our fanpage on Facebook.
What i have understand when reading about this is that i can make an fb app and set the extended permission to manage_pages and then get the page access token from the page that i am admin for.
Well, every user of the mobile app wont be admin over our fanpage......
So i wonder if there is some way to get the fanpage access token and let user upload pics to our fanpage.
OR if you have any other way of doing it let me know.
I am building with appcelerator Titanium so i use javascript.
If you have an answer for this please explain like i am 6 years old.
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What I'm trying to achieve:
Fetch images from my own Instagram business account to display on a website using the Instagram graph api v3.3 by not obtaining a user access token from a client side Facebook SDK login modal because users just shouldn't be doing that to see a simple Instagram feed.
I have the permissions manage_pages and instagram_basic granted(gone through app review). I'm using app_id and app_secret as user access_token parameter value(which may not be the access token Instagram graph api is looking for) as when I tried to fetch any data there is an error message:
" #10) To use 'Page Public Content Access', your use of this endpoint must be reviewed and approved by Facebook. To submit this 'Page Public Content Access' feature for review please read our documentation on reviewable features: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review.'" However, I don't need the permission Page Public Content Access because I'm fetching images from my own account. This is also confirmed by the Facebook App Review support.
The query that is used to get the images is as follows:
https://graph.facebook.com/${pageId}?fields=id&access_token=${accessToken}
My access token in this case is app_id|app_secret since I can't access the user access token.
The developer api guide "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/getting-started/" only shows a way to get user access token using the client side Facebook SDK login button which generates a user access token after a visiting user interacts with a modal that pops up to have them login. But again, a simple Instagram image gallery shouldn't require every user that visit the site to log in to their own Facebook account.
I have bugged the App Review support team at Facebook with no real answer. I couldn't join the Facebook developers support group as no one is approving my request to join and I've also tried my best to seek help from the facebook developers support team but I can't reach them. So I'm turning to Stack Overflow to ask if there is any way to display images from an Instagram Business Account without sticking a Facebook login SDK modal on the site.
Thanks so much.
EDIT: After reading #misorude's comment, I'm thinking would adding the Facebook login modal on the website and querying it by logging into my own Facebook account and then capturing my own user access token that is returned by the api and then use that access token for every susequent api calls to fetch images work?
Soo.. with the new changes that Instagram and Facebook have brought upon us, it has made it more complicated to have a module displayed on our website to just show the images from a user's feed.
Long Story:
Below, are the things that I have already accomplished:
- Create a Facebook page and link Instagram account (Completed)
- Create an Facebook App (Completed)
- Create a Business Manager page (Working on verifications)
I want to be able to display a users profile images depending on the username that is set in a custom field type on WordPress Admin Panel.
Questions:
Since we own all of our corporate IG accounts, do I have to implement Instagram/Facebook login to display user's feed items?
Is there a way to bypass this?
I am facebook development newbie and have problems with understanding login flow.
What I want to achieve:
I need access app user's pictures from the album created by the
application (preferably also when users are offline).
I run through facebook samples and stackoverflow questions and what I managed to do is:
I use facebook authentication with user_photos scope as follows:
however the script retrieving list of albums gets an "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user." error.
So I added:
Grant Permissions to Allow access to Photos and Albums
The scope is exactly the same, so I don't understand why after clicking that button retrieving the albums works.
The problem is that after refreshing the page, app recognizes that I'm a user who uses the app, but the albums are not accessible again.
How can I make app to get the permission to access pictures permanently?
I suppose it should be possible to access them also when the user is offline (if the album is public)?
The problem was that script accessing data was loaded faster than the user was verified by facebook. It worked with a button just because clicking a button gave application needed time buffor.
I want my Facebook app that I'm developing on, appears as an iframe in several fan pages that I have on Facebook.
is this possible to place a facebook app on a Facebook fan page iframe?
if so will my users need to approve my app on each page or will one-time approval for the app will approve it for him in all my fan pages?
Yes this is possible, please refer to Page Tab Tutorial and Apps on Facebook.com documentation for details on how to do this
User only need grant access to application once, on other Pages same application will get all user details (This isn't required, if you application doesn't need user identity to work, you can skip this at all)...
Facebook grants permissions by app id, so no matter how many pages you put that app in, it will only ask for perms on one page.
OK, apologies for the verbose title. Let me give the background in a bit more detail.
My website allows my registered users to create new pages, each of which has its own unique URL. Each page has a Facebook "Like" button on it. I've already implemented Facebook Open Graph API meta tags so that the pages are proper open graph objects, and when some other visiting Facebook user "likes" the registered user's page, a post appears on that Facebook user's wall saying they have liked the page. The Facebook Like widget also displays the number of "likes" that page has received as normal. So far, so good.
What I want to do is allow my registered users to be able to communicate back to the Facebook users who have liked their page. The community of "likers" for a page is a potentially valuable social media resource to the registered user, if only they could communicate back.
I am aware of the "admin page" link you get beside the Like button, which can be used to post to these people, but that is not an option for my registered users as they have no privileges in relation to the Like button.
What I want to do, if possible, is setup a form to capture the registered user's message back to the Facebook users, and then my website sends the message on their behalf, without having to ask for any extra privileges from the Facebook users.
The following Facebook documentation pages seem to say this is possible, but having followed the Open Graph API documentation, I can't get it to work as described - http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/465/ and http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ ("Publishing" subsection). I can get the access token correctly in the first request, and plug that into the second request to do the post, but that doesn't seem to do anything and doesn't return any error.
Since it doesn't work for me, I'm wondering if this is possible as described, or do I need to get some sort of extra permission to do this? I've seen reference to offline_access permission but as I'm new to this stuff I am not sure how it would fit in. If I have to get the Facebook users to grant permissions, this is not going to work as envisaged.
Any thoughts would be most helpful.
The short answer: No, You will never been able to post on someones wall as another user.
The long answer:
You could try to ask for offline access but then you are asking the user to hand over all their facebook data and give you access todo whatever you like their accound, so that is not likely to happend.
The next problem is that they have to be friends to be able to post on each others walls.
Thats why Pages was implemented, so that organisations could announce/talk with the people interested.
However if you have created the like button correctly and give the pages correct meta data, you are able to post to user who have liked it.
Scroll down to Publishing:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Just add a form for your user and let your system publish to the correct page, you probably will need a offline token from your own account or similar to use on the server.
Another more complex way could be to generate a facebook page for each page you have on your server.
When the user creates a page on your system a page is created on facebook but as your app as admin.
And when another user likes the page they like the facebook page, hence you have the possibility to post in that page and speak to the user who liked it. (whooa thats a mouthfull).