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Yevgeny Simkin
Yevgeny Simkin

Reputation: 28389

Why am I getting the "The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action" error when I try to post a video (but not a photo)

I've been successfully posting from my app to user's walls for a couple of years now using the methodology defined here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/

and now I'm switching to posting video (instead of photos) to their walls and suddenly am getting this error:

{"error":{"message":"(#200) The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action","type":"OAuthException","code":200}}

Presumably the permissions for posting photos and videos are the same (as far as I can tell) so this is almost certainly a red herring error (not unusual for facebook). So, I'm curious if anyone else uses the /post/ method to publish content to the walls of users who have authorized your apps and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong... After I pull the user's access token (which I have xxxed out below) the rest of my call looks like this:

    post/access_token=xxxxxxxxx
&from=MyCompany
&to=user_facebook_id
&title=SomeString
&link=URL_TO_FOLLOW_BACK_FROM_FB
&source=URL_OF_VIDEO_FILE
&name=SOME_STRING
&type=video
&picture=URL_OF_THUMBNAIL

My guess is that I'm missing something in the call, but I can't figure out what it might be.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1212

Answers (1)

Tarek Ayna
Tarek Ayna

Reputation: 350

I guess this is what is different:

Video POST requests should use graph-video.facebook.com

Source: Graph API > Video

Upvotes: 2

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