[Air-L] Submitting R/Python scraper to Facebook App Review

[Astvansh, Vivek]

Justin:

Thank you for asking.
I am in a similar boat; my RA is trying to write a new FB scraper. I submitted my application last evening and it was a pain. Going by your experience, it is likely that FB will decline my application as well. I will let you my fortune favors me. If you are able to get your R scraper to work, please consider emailing me.

Good luck!

-----Original Message-----
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Justin Ho
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 4:04 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Submitting R/Python scraper to Facebook App Review

Hi everyone,

I am a PhD student and I have to collect Facebook data from time to time for my PhD project, I have been using R and it worked just fine. However, after the recent changes in Facebook policy, personal accounts can no longer generate short-lived token, to obtain an access token, we must first create an App, and to enable the App to scrape Facebook data, we must submit an App Review for "Page Public Content Access". I tried submitting my R codes and a screencast of me using the codes, but it was rejected on the basis that:

Your screencast doesn't show how the use of this permission directly
> improves the user experience in your app. Unfortunately, we also 
> weren't able to determine this from testing your app manually.

All permissions data must be visibly used within your app. We do not accept
> permission requests for data that you may decide to use later.


From above feedback, it seems the page public content access is only available for built-in Facebook App (like NetVizz), instead of standalone R/Python programs. I am wondering if anyone has successfully passed the review? Could you share your experience of how to do it?

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,
Justin