Question

I am able to add custom tabs to my Facebook pages, by using the Graph API,
[https://graph.facebook.com/page_id/tabs] and using HTTP POST.

However, I am unable to add custom tabs to my Facebook application’s profile page. Infact the API, [https://graph.facebook.com/page_id/tabs], with HTTP GET also fails.

(I mean, I cannot even get the tabs for my Facebook application’s profile page with the API.)

What am I doing wrong?

Here I am listing what I am trying to do:

1. I get an access_token (say a1) for a user (admin_user) using the manage_pages permission.

2. With this access_token (a1), I use Graph API, >[https://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts] and get back a list of pages (pages and application profile pages):

   {
   “data”: [
   {
   “name”: “Bg”,
   “access_token”: “***“,
   “category”: “Industrials”,
   “id”: “*****”
   },
   {
   “name”: “Testapp2Pip”,
   “access_token”: “*******“,
   “category”: “Application”,
   “id”: “***”
   },

3. Now I use the Graph API, [https://graph.facebook.com/page_id/tabs]

Case 1. If I use the page_id for the background page (which is a normal page) and the corresponding access_token, I get back the tabs for the page.

Case 2. If I use the page_id for the Testapp2Pip page (which is an application profile page) and the corresponding access_token, I get an error:

{
    "error": {
        "message": "Unsupported get request.",
        "type": "GraphMethodException"
    }
}

What am I doing wrong here? How do I get the tabs for an application profile page? Also, I would actually want to add custom tabs to the application profile page by using Graph API.

Answer 1

Okay, so this is a bug. I have filed the bug with Facebook.