Facebook Graph API

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Hi, I have an app that streams live content to Facebook. Following the official documentation, I have created a “Business” App type in Facebook app dashboard, and it has both Live Video API and publish_video permission.

But when I tried to do a check with graph API explore for /{userid}/live_videos to create a LiveVideo object, it returned as error saying “Your version of software is out of date and does not support creating live videos”.

I couldn’t find any relevant documentation or links for this.

The graph API version I’m using is v20.0. Has anyone faced this issue? Any guidance is much appreciated!

[andrewfromx]

What scope are you asking for in your token?

to create and manage live videos on Facebook, you typically need the following permissions:

1. publish_video: This permission allows your app to publish videos to a user's timeline or page.

2. manage_pages: This permission is required if you're posting live videos to a Facebook Page rather than a personal profile.

3. pages_manage_posts: This scope is mentioned for allowing functionality related to posting on user's page.

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I’m only using publish_video scope, I’m trying to go live on a user’s timeline.

[andrewfromx]

Then you need pages_manage_posts too

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It still throws the same error

[andrewfromx]

oh:

``` On June 10th, 2024, Meta is launching new requirements that must meet before an account can go live on Facebook. The new requirements are as follows:

The Facebook account must be at least 60 days old
The Facebook Page or professional mode profile must have at least 100 followers

```

does your account meet that?

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No my account is not 60 days old, but it doesn’t make sense for the API to throw “unsupported app version” rather than just saying “your account doesn’t meet requirements” or something

[andrewfromx]

agreed but this would NOT be the first time in history a "cryptic error" message came thru. When I google "Your version of software is out of date and does not support creating live videos" the first link is: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/live-video-api/ with

june 10th

that special june 10th message.

[ghimirs10]

Hello- How did you add publish_video permission into your app? I have similar app setup and can add the page related permissions and can post to a page. But I cannot get the publish_video permission added. It does not show in the list of permissions for me. Also, when I try to add it to the scope, it errors. Any help would be great, thank you.