Question

Simple, imagine I am posting a wall post or an event on a random Facebook Page from a PHP script, and I want to delete the item. I simply use this :

$facebook->api('/'.FacebookId,'DELETE');

Of course, the FacebookId is structured like : userid_postid

But that doesn’t work. To see why, I simply go to this URL :

https://graph.facebook.com/” + postID + “?method=delete&access_token=” + AccessToken;

Here is the result :

{
   "error": {
      "message": "(#200) Permissions error",
      "type": "OAuthException",
      "code": 200
   }
}

By lurking around stackoverflow, I found this bug : http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12777
It is still not resolved.

So if anyone knows how to get this permission, I would appreciate your help.

Answer 1

According to the documentation:

You can delete a post as long as your application created the post.
You delete a post by issuing an HTTP DELETE request to the POST_ID
object with publish_stream permission.

Is this the case? Has your app created the post? does it have the “publish_stream” permissions?

I just tried it using the graph explorer, I created a post by POSTing to the me/feed, got back an id (USERID_POSTID) and then issues a DELETE request to the id, and it worked well (the returned response was “true”).