I finally got my app approved but only with Basic permissions. I attempted to get public_content, but there doesn’t seem to be any way since you need to be one of the following: “brands, advertisers, broadcasters and publishers”. So, I’m finally going to put my plugin back out there soon, but it’s very limited from what it used to be able to do.
Basically right now, my plugin will only be able to show the authorized user’s recent media (limited to 15 photos)… that’s it. My plugin used to allow any public content, so you could merge multiple user accounts and/or search by hashtag, etc… all of that stuff is out the window now since you need the “public_content” permission to pull any of that info. Oh well, at least it’s something… but, still a huge bummer.