Unable to access Instagram messages from Facebook Graph API Explorer-CodePudding

I am trying to access Instagram messages from the Facebook Graph API Explorer.

With v14.0 I make the GET call me/conversations?platform=instagram. I get the following error:

  "error": {
    "message": "(#298) Reading mailbox messages requires the extended permission read_mailbox",
    "type": "OAuthException",
    "code": 298,
    "fbtrace_id": "Ad8l_IyomTnyotlNMG_HiS8"
  }
}

However, there is no read_mailbox permission in the Graph API Explorer Permissions. I checked under App Review > Permissions and Features, and couldn't find the read_mailbox permission there either.

Note that this API call works in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2KxYeGMXo&t=18s, where they are using API v12.0, and the read_mailbox permission isn't required for that.

How do I get the read_mailbox permission or work around it?

CodePudding user response：

"message": "(#298) Reading mailbox messages requires the extended permission read_mailbox",

That permission existed in the early days of the API, when it was still possible to read the mailbox of a user account.

Since you are getting that message here, this indicates that you tried to use a user access token, instead of a page token. (What the alias me resolves to, depends on the access token.)