Permissions Reference - Facebook Login

Get basic metadata of an Instagram Business Account.

Managing organic content creation process for Instagram (i.e. post photos, videos to main feed) on behalf of a business

Using the API for promotional purposes

Any actions that do not comply with Instagram's community standards

Using the API to publish static, animated, or looping images

Read, update, and delete comments of Instagram Business Accounts.

Read media objects, such as stories, of Instagram Business Accounts.

Get metadata of an Instagram Business Account.

Get data insights of an Instagram Business Account.

Get story insights of an Instagram Business Account.

Live video streaming to a User's timeline.

Streaming of advertisements, or any content which does not meet Facebook's content policies.

Creating user-initiated interactive experiences

Confirming bookings, purchases, orders, etc.

Sending customer support messages

Up-selling or cross-selling products or services

Sending brand advertising, newsletters, announcements or spam

Messaging people without their consent

Send subscription messages to a person on Messenger.

Programmatically create campaigns, manage ads, and fetch metrics.

Build ad management tools that provide innovative solutions and differentiated value for advertisers.

Businesses must not try to reverse engineer how Facebook's delivery engine works.

Businesses must not try to duplicate too many of the same ads to increase chance that ads are delivered.

Provide API access to your ad performance data for use in custom dashboards and data analytics.

Send web events from server directly to Facebook.

Businesses must not try to identify an individual and target them with specific ads.

Businesses must not share audiences across products owned by different businesses.

Businesses must not share insights across products owned by different businesses.

Provides the ability for your app to access ad performance data from Attribution for use in custom dashboards and data analytics.

Manage business assets such as an ad account. Claiming ad accounts.

Performing general page management and administration only.

Build commerce-related solutions which include but are not limited to e-commerce platforms, travel platforms, and dynamic ads.

Build inventory type management solutions which includes but is not limited to product inventory, hotel inventory or car inventory.

Leads are generally submitted by users in response to specific kinds of CTA (Sign ups, Get Quotes, etc.) shown on the ad. The information within the lead is used to reach out to the users to follow up on those CTA. For example, a dealer reaches out to a potential customer (lead) with quotes for a car.

By advertiser authorized CRM platforms to pull the lead data on behalf of the advertisers. The advertisers then use the lead information to reach out to the user.

Publish content to Pages owned by the people who use your app. Publishing also requires the publish_pages permission.

Help people manage the posts, comments and likes published to their Pages.

Provides API access to manage call to actions on Pages that you manage

Create and update Instant Articles for Pages owned by the people who use your app.

Provides API access to accounts for showing the list of the Pages that a person manages.

Allow app users to explicitly publish content from your app to any of the Facebook Pages they manage from within a custom composer.

Seamlessly like and comment from your app on behalf of the Pages app users manage.

Automatically publish stories without app users being aware or having control.

Pre-filling the messages of Posts with content the app user or business didn't create.

Integrate Facebook's app, page or domain insights into your own analytics tools.

Transfer or sell insights data to third parties.

Provide any non-visible use of insights.

Allow someone to manage the mailboxes of their Pages through your app.

This permission does not let your app read the page owner's mailbox. It only applies to the page's mailbox.

Allow a person to use their Facebook email address to login to your app.

Spamming users. Your use of email must comply with both Facebook policies and the CAN-SPAM Act.

Allow apps to get content posted in their group with user details

Help admins get aggregated insights about activity happening in their group

Behavioral retargeting

Building or augmenting user profiles

Mapping user engagement across Groups

Sharing data between multiple businesses that you manage

Transfering or selling data obtained through third parties

Allow people to publish content from your app to their Facebook group.

Help people manage the content published to their group.

Automatically publish content without the person being aware or having control over said content.

Your app includes content that is legally required to be age-gated, for example, gambling, gaming, or alcohol.

Your app includes content that is not suitable for the general Facebook audience, such as dating, mature, graphic, or violent content.

Your application includes content that is directed at kids or teens.

No visible impact to the User experience based on a person's age range.

Provide age relevant content to people based on their date of birth.

Provide age relevant content for anything where the age range is not sufficient.

Determine whether a person says they are under 18, over 18, or over 21. Please use the age_range instead.

Use the list of friends to create a social experience in an app.

Correctly render pronouns in certain languages, for example, when a bot messages a person.

Display a person's gender to other people, for example, for dating.

Personalized a User's experience based on gender, for example, in shopping or fashion.

No visible impact to the user experience based on gender.

Fill out a registration form or User profile without using the information to enhance the User experience.

Help people connect to others from their hometown.

Personalize a person's experience based on where they lived or grew up.

Create a personalized experience by correlating and surfacing content related to a person's interests.

Enable connections with other users based on mutual interests. The user must be informed why the other users are suggested.

Gate access to your app, or some content within your app, based on whether or not someone has liked a page.

Provide a way for someone who uses your app to visit the Facebook Profile of someone in their friends list who also uses your app, for example, for local listings.

Attempt to programmatically determine someone's Facebook username or canonical User ID.

Help people connect to others from their city.

Personalize a person's experience based on their current city.

Surface content relevant to their city.

Display a person's pictures in a digital photo frame.

Edit photos or create new content based on existing photos (e.g. slideshows and face-in-hole apps).

Help people export their photos for printing. Only offer this service for a person's personal and non-commercial use.

Provide creative content derived from a user's existing content in timeline posts.

Provide value to the user by visibly analyzing the content of the posts on their Timeline.

Non-visible use of this data such as sentiment analysis.

Edit videos or create new content based on the user's videos, e.g., montage and portfolio apps.

Display a person's videos on a TV via a set top box, or display their videos in a digital photo frame.

Display WhatsApp Business Account analytics in your customer portal.

Manage message templates for WhatsApp Business Accounts.

Share data between businesses that you manage.

Sell data.

Transfer customer insights or data to third-parties other than the business owner.