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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:54:51+00:00

I’ve an app which has requested for the user_photos permission. I’ve been trying to

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I’ve an app which has requested for the “user_photos” permission. I’ve been trying to get the picture data with a photo id. eg. https://graph.facebook.com/123456/picture but I keep getting the error below:

“type”: “OAuthException”,
“message”: “A user access token is required to request this resource.”

What I’m actually trying to achieve in the end is to retrieve the cover_photo of every album a user has. I’m using the AS3 Facebook API’s Facebook.getImageUrl(id) function – which is working well with profile pictures – but not this.

Has anyone got the same problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The error describes the problem and suggest the solution, you need the access_token of the current (logged-in) user or an indefinite access_token (using offline_access permission) before you are able to get what you want.

    Some objects on Facebook don’t require access_tokens: 

    https://graph.facebook.com/cocacola/picture
https://graph.facebook.com/ifaour/picture

    But some do: 

    https://graph.facebook.com/cocacola/feed
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