Delete facebook post with Graph API - trouble getting this to work

Question

I'm using the following to post a message on my Facebook page:

$attachment =  array(
    'access_token' => $access_token,
    'message' => 'This is a test Message 4:',   
    'name' => "This is a test Name 4",
    'link' => "http://slashdot.org/",
    'description' => "This is a test Description 4"
);

$ret_code=$facebook->api('/me/feed', 'POST', $attachment);

This works great.

How do I delete the same post using the facebook GRAPH api? I read the docs and it says to issue a POST like:

https://graph.facebook.com/COMMENT_ID?method=delete

To test I set this up in a simple form with submit button, POSTing the data to https://graph.facebook.com/COMMENT_ID?method=delete (substituting COMMENT_ID fro the 11111111111_111111111111 id returned from the original publish call. This returns "This API call requires a valid app_id".

What is the correct way to issue a DELETE command?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '11 at 17:24

11

Since you are using the php-sdk you just issue this call:

$facebook->api("/COMMENT_ID","DELETE");

answered May 09 '11 at 17:24

ifaour

38,035
12
72
79

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 03 '12 at 18:14

2

You can use the following code:

Http::post('https://graph.facebook.com/'.$fb_action_id, array('method'=>'delete', 'access_token'=>$your_app_access_token));

This post will return a boolean value, true if successed and false if failed.

edited Oct 03 '12 at 18:14

j0k

22,600
28
79
90

answered Oct 02 '12 at 15:10

Mohammad Anini

5,073
4
35
46

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

1

Its been discussed here Facebook SDK and Graph API Comment Deleting Error

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Community

1
1

answered May 09 '11 at 16:50

Inam Abbas

1,480
14
28

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 31 '12 at 13:11

you need to pass the access token too. You can delete all the milestones of a page like follows:

$milestones = $facebook->api('/PAGE_ID/milestones');
foreach($milestones[data] as $milestone)
{
  echo $milestone['id'];
  $args = array(
    'access_token'  => $pages_access_token
  );
  $deleted = $facebook->api($milestone['id'],"delete",$args);
  if($deleted)
  {
    echo " <font color=\"green\">OK</font><br>";
  }
  else
  {
    echo " <font color=\"red\">ERR</font><br>";
  }
}

Did you check the OP? Access token is the first pair listed in the $attachment array. Thanks. — a coder, Aug 31 '12 at 13:35

Delete facebook post with Graph API - trouble getting this to work

4 Answers4

Linked