Why Facebook Graph does not allow me to delete a post?

Question

I have a page access token with the following details:

• Expires Never
• Valid True
• Origin Web
• Scopes create_note, export_stream, manage_pages, photo_upload, publish_actions, publish_stream, read_mailbox, read_stream, share_item, status_update, user_friends, video_upload

Still, when i try to delete a post from the page i got that access token I get this response:

{"error": {
  "message": "(#200) User does not have sufficient administrative permission for this action on this page",
  "type": "OAuthException",
  "code": 200 
  }
}

The access token for the page was obtained using this call GET /{user-id}/accounts. i have to mention that the user access token with the same permissions doesn't work either.

What am I missing?

Thanks! Petre Tudor

Answer 1

The response you're getting from facebook itself says that the user with the access to the page you're trying to DELETE the post of, doesn't have the right permissions to do so.

This is because your account/user doesn't hold a role which gives rights to delete the posts from the page. The account must be holding one of these roles - Moderator, Advertiser, Insights Analyst. Only the Manager and the Content Creator has rights to delete posts from the pages.

Hence, you should either get one of those roles (The admin can change the role for you) or authenticate the app from a Manager/Content Creator's account.

For more details, you can check out their official help section - What are the different kinds of Page admins and what can they do?

Hope that helps!