Permissions Required for Each Network

For Social Media Archiving to archive social media data on your behalf, certain permissions need to be granted from your account, depending on the social media network. See below for the list of permission requirements by network.

Important Note
If you're receiving an error when you try to connect, please contact Social Media Archiving Support.

Facebook and Instagram Permissions

Archive Action for Facebook and Instagram	Facebook and Instagram Permission Needed
Archive posts and comments you have shared in a group	Authored posts and comments in groups
Show the list of pages that you can decide to archive or not	Show the list of pages you manage
Archive Page messages	Manage and access Page Conversations
Archive Instagram insights	Access insights for the Instagram account connected to your Page
Archive comments on an Instagram Page	Manage comments for the Instagram account connected to your Page
Archive user-generated content on the Page, such as: Posts Comments Ratings by users or other Pages Posts the Page is tagged in	Read user content on your page
Archive Profile and posts from the Instagram Page	Access Profile and Posts from the Instagram account connected to your Page
Archiving using streaming, which is a more efficient way of capturing	Manage Account, settings, and webhooks on a Page
Enables Social Media Archiving to use Facebook’s Business Manager API Note: We use this API to capture data from Facebook.	Manage your business
Archive timeline activity	Manage content posted to your Page

X Permissions

Archive Action on X	X Permission Needed
Archive tweets, timeline, profile, and direct messages	Read X resources, including a user’s: Tweets Home Timeline Profile information Direct message
Authenticate an X account	Request email address to authenticate users

Archive Action on X

X Permission Needed

Archive tweets, timeline, profile, and direct messages

Read X resources, including a user’s:

Tweets
Home Timeline
Profile information
Direct message

Authenticate an X account

Request email address to authenticate users

YouTube Permissions

Archive Action on YouTube	YouTube Permission Needed
Archive YouTube videos and comments	See, edit, and delete YouTube: Videos Ratings Comments Captions
Access the YouTube account so the user can connect and start archiving	View your YouTube Account

Archive Action on YouTube

YouTube Permission Needed

Archive YouTube videos and comments

See, edit, and delete YouTube:

Videos
Ratings
Comments
Captions

Access the YouTube account so the user can connect and start archiving

View your YouTube Account

Pinterest Permissions

Archive Action on Pinterest	Pinterest Permission Needed
Archive Pinterest Content	Read a user’s: Profile Board and pin details Pins on a board Access the user’s follows and followers (on boards, users, and interests)

Vimeo Permissions

Archive Action on Vimeo	Vimeo Permission Needed
Archive Vimeo content	Access the user’s public and private data

Flickr Permissions

Archive Action on Flickr	Flickr Permission Needed
Archive Flickr content	See the user’s photos, including private photos

LinkedIn Permissions

Social Media Archiving collaborates with Zix/Erado to be able to archive LinkedIn Personal and Company data. Zix/Erado asks for the following permissions during account connections:

Archive Action on LinkedIn	LinkedIn Permission Needed
Archive LinkedIn Profile	Access the user’s basic profile: Name Photo Headline Public Profile Access the user’s full profile: Experience Education Skills Recommendations
Archive LinkedIn content like posts and comments	Access to the user’s activity for compliance monitoring and archiving purposes

TikTok Permissions

Archive Action on TikTok	TikTok Permission Needed
Archive TikTok profile	Allows Social Media Archiving read-only access to a user’s: Avatar Display name Username Biography
Archive TikTok Videos	Gives Social Media Archiving read-only access to a user’s public TikTok videos

Archive Action on TikTok

TikTok Permission Needed

Archive TikTok profile

Allows Social Media Archiving read-only access to a user’s:

Avatar
Display name
Username
Biography

Archive TikTok Videos

Gives Social Media Archiving read-only access to a user’s public TikTok videos

Nextdoor Permissions

Archive Action on Nextdoor	Nextdoor Permission Needed
Archive Nextdoor profile	Allows Social Media Archiving read-only access to your: First and last name Profile photo Neighborhood location Allow Social Media Archiving to read your Service Area boundaries, including any custom areas you’ve used.
Archive Nextdoor posts	Gives Social Media Archiving read-only access to posts created by you