Facebook pages API: “Page Public Content Access” review screencast

Question

My website uses Facebook Page API to pull public content from a Facebook page, published by the page owner, to create a dynamic blog with a clear link to the Facebook page.<

Answer 1

Having gone through this process recently with a successful outcome, here's what worked for me, hopefully it's useful to some:

1. Business Verification

This process was fairly straightforward, I provided all required information and supporting documents. After being declined once for insufficient prove of the company address I've uploaded a couple other documents and got the verification (there was no obvious reason why the first one wasn't sufficient but the others were).

2. Screencast

This is obviously the tricky part, but this is what worked for me: I'm gathering data using a webservice and storing it in a database. This data is then visible in a mobile app, so I've provided them with login credentials to my app. To mock the behavior of my webservice getting public data from Facebook, I've created a fake Facebook page, to the data of which I have access without the PPCA, in developer mode. In the recording I somewhat follow their Server to Server example. I show my database with a sample entry and then my fake Facebook page holding the data I want to gather. Then I run my webservice and show that the data from my page is now in my database. Finally I explained how to navigate to this exact dataset in my app. That's it.

This was rejected once when I didn't include access to my app (I only showed the data in my database).

As a final note, even though the events edge is listed in the pages API to which you get access with the PPCA, you still can't access it (i.e. /pageID/events). So if you're looking to get event data, no need to bother with PPCA.