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Nicolas Manzini
Nicolas Manzini

Reputation: 8546

Is publish_actions required to post on user own wall? Facebook API

When requesting publish_actions permission the message says the app is willing to post on your friends' wall but I actually just want my app to let the user post videos on his own wall. Do I need this permission to do so?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1959

Answers (2)

andyrandy
andyrandy

Reputation: 73994

If you just want to share a Link (to a Youtube Video, for example), you can just use the Share Dialog - no authorization or permissions needed: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/share-dialog

If you want to upload a photo or video, you will need to authorize the user with publish_actions. Keep in mind that the message must be 100% user generated.

Check out the "Publishing" part of the Facebook docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.1/user/videos

A user access token with publish_actions permission can be used to publish new photos.

...well, that is actually a bug in the docs, it should be "videos", not "photos", of course. I´ve filed a bug report for this: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/303448543173296/

General information about sharing: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/web/share

Upvotes: 1

Ludovic Feltz
Ludovic Feltz

Reputation: 11916

Do you use standards dialogs? According to the facebook api documentation you don't need this permission for theses dialogs.

(see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.1#reference-publish_actions)

If you use the Facebook Graph API you don't need this permission if you only want to post on the user feed.

Upvotes: 0

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