Delete permission of your own app from your profile

Question

I am testing my app, and when I had authorized my app with my user profile, I only gave it access to certain set of pages. Now I want to test different pages, but there seems to be no way to re-authorize the app.

When I request authorization again, Facebook just returns the existing authorization.

In my user profile on Facebook, Settings, App and Websites, I can see third party apps and remove them, but, I do not see any apps that I am an admin of here. How to remove your own apps permission from your profile or page?

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a GUI way to do it. There is a way to do it via Graph API. I'm using the dev documentation.

To revoke a specific permission you have to make call to the Graph API endpoint:

DELETE /{user-id}/permissions/{permission-name}

To completetly de-authorize an app or revoke login. You have to make call to the Graph API endpoint:

DELETE /{user-id}/permissions

Here is excerpt from the documentation :

Revoking Permissions

Apps can let people revoke permissions that were previously granted. For example, your app could have a settings page that lets someone disable publishing to Facebook. That settings page could also revoke the publish_actions permission at the same time.

You can revoke a specific permission by making a call to a Graph API endpoint:

DELETE /{user-id}/permissions/{permission-name}

This request must be made with a user access token or an app access token for the current app. If the request is successful, you will receive a response of true.

Revoking Login

You can also let people completely de-authorize an app, or revoke login, by making a call to this Graph API endpoint:

DELETE /{user-id}/permissions

This request must be made with a valid user access token or an app access token for the current app. If the request is successful, your app receives a response of true. If the call is successful, any user access token for the person will be invalidated and they will have to log in again. Because you're de-authorizing your app, they will also have to grant access to your app as if they were logging in for the first time.