Suddenly, pages_messaging_subscriptions permission is required

facebook facebook-graph-api messenger
Old Geezer picture Old Geezer · Aug 20, 2016 · Viewed 8k times · Source

I have a simple message bot that was set up according to the Messenger Platform guide. It has been working fine for the last few months, with about half a dozen messages sent a day. I have not touched it at all, but suddenly, sending a message, ie calling https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/messages?access_token=..., returns:

{"message":"(#230) Requires pages_messaging_subscriptions permission to manage the object","type":"OAuthException","code":230,"fbtrace_id":"DVs...."}

This was out of the blue. Things were working fine, I did not even log on to Facebook during this time, and I haven't even looked at my webhook callback website. But some time from Aug 17 onward, this exception was returned for every attempted message send.

Has something changed? Anyway, I could not find a subscription field by the name pages_messaging_subscriptions in the Webhooks Page Subscription page.

What do I need to get my message bot to work again?

Answer

Dmitry picture Dmitry · Aug 22, 2016

August 15 was Updater Messenger Platform Policies. official post in blog

Now, to send a message a day after the activity of the user is necessary to request additional permission in the application settings. screenshot of settings

Related questions

Facebook Messenger bot welcome message: 100 The parameter setting_type is required

I'm trying to set a welcome message for a Facebook Messenger bot using the code provided in the documentation - with my own page ID and page access token curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "setting_type":"…

Read More
Messenger Bot: how to get id, name and user's profile picture url?

I have Messenger Bot and want to do this action. User click Button Template(URL) . Messenger opens new tab On Web app header display header with fullname, display Picture All these data are public data ex: user fullname, picture url …

Read More
Facebook OAuth "The domain of this URL isn't included in the app's domain"

Let me first start with saying I've searched for an answer to this question for quite some time... I'm trying to setup Facebook OAuth to work with my application that is being developed locally on my machine. Everything was working …

Read More