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Goal:

I want to specify privacy for posts, that are done through my application, when I post to a Page's wall, using Pagetoken.

Problem:

Using page token, I do post to URL "https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed" with the following body —

{

   "message": "from app with security after requesting a username",
   "privacy": {
       "description": "Amsterdam, Netherlands, Netherlands",
       "value": "CUSTOM"
   }

}

An receive such a terrible answer —

{

   "error": {
   "message": "(#100) Posts where the actor is a page cannot also include privacy.",
   "type": "OAuthException"
   }

}

Even through it is said in documentation, here - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#posts, that Pages#post.privacy is supported.

And explicitly:

"The description field may contain a comma-separated lists of valid country, city and language if a Page's post targeting by location/language is specified."

Please help me out, what am I doing wrong?

Ilya Pimenov
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I posted the bug in Facebook Developers Bug reporter tool https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/238365492903384

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Christophe Van Durme
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  • got a response from FB: Posts made by a page do not have privacy settings, they're always visible to everyone unless targetted using the appropriate options. Also, posts made via the API do not have a 'share' link in the same way that manually created posts do - this is intentional – Christophe Van Durme Dec 22 '11 at 14:32
  • Thanks alot. Thou I'm not concerned about "share" link that much, but to be able geo-target my posts with "privacy" option. – Ilya Pimenov Dec 22 '11 at 16:38
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This looks like a documentation bug. I have attached a screenshot of the old version of the docs. Try using "targeting" with the same location format as:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/adsapi/targeting_specs/

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I've also requested a fix for the docs.

J Starr
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