There's obviously the send dialog that addresses this, but I appreciate in your case you want to reply to a message rather than create a new one. My guess is that any app can't just send private messages as the potential for spam would be huge once you have a users access_token. This is probably to allow businesses to reply to customers. My guess is this allows for 1 'auto-responder' and then an actual reply from someone addressing a user And the page can only send 2 replies without a reply from the user. What's interesting though, is that a Page account can reply to private messages, provided a user has initiated it first. How send message facebook friend through graph api using Accessstoken

You can also see the response in this post Also the message pages specifically only lists 'reading' as an option. All they would need is 1 legitimate message and they could constantly reply with comments. I believe Facebook deprecated this ability due to the fact that apps could potentially spam users. From what I can gather from the docs the 'publish_actions' permission 'Enables your app to post content, comments and likes to a user's stream' note that it only says post to a users STREAM. I can see why this might seem confusing, especially as it has a 'comments' connection. I don't think it's actually possible to send a reply to a private message via the graph api. The implementation is done with Facebook C# SKD Attempt to post comment to comments:Īnd directly towards the comment id(with and without question mark):Īny suggestions welcome cause I'm seriously stuck! So I tried the following (with and without question mark after /comments).įigure 4. It should be a string containing the comment text. Message='This is my message' message is the only parameter in this API call. The documentation descripbes posting repluy to comments like this:Īn individual comment on an object which has a /comments connection I cannot retreive an individual comment(clicking on the one posted by logged in user. Figure 2 (I can get comments collection Figure3)Īlso note I have all permissions set to allow and if I didnt graph api explorer should ask for it prior to request.įigure 2. As I understand there is no way to initiate a conversation from the graph api but I should be able to respond to messages according to So I have the following conversation between me(HiQ) and Magnus on Facebook.

Solution is to build a chat using the facebook chat api(and you should use it as a chat, not a messaging system but it will leve messages.)

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