Introduction

Once a user has authorized your website or application, you can access most of their data. However to do certain tasks, they may need to grant you additional permissions to stop websites from acting inappropriately with user data.

Permissions

Permission Name Description API methods it limits
manage_feed Permission to edit the user's feed. feed.removePost
manage_friends Permission to add and remove friends friends.add, friends.remove
set_user_info Permission to change the user's profile information users.setInfo
manage_comments Permission to add, edit and remove game comments made by the current user comments.add, comments.remove, feed.addProfileComment
manage_favorites Permission to add and remove the current user's favorite games favorites.add, favorites.remove
offline_access Permission to have a permanent access token (not require authentication to access the API)

To grant a permission

Permissions are granted in the authorization process, in the API call auth.requestToken.


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