Did the city search data from the Facebook Ads API suddenly change?

Question

The City Search call used to return a response where each city had the form:

{
  "name": "Dublin, CA", 
  "key": 220522764, 
  "subtext": "CA, United States"
}

Now the API returns:

{
  "name": "Dublin", 
  "key": 220522764, 
  "subtext": "California, United States"
}

Is this a permanent change?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '13 at 18:09

1

Yes, last week. No warning from Facebook.

answered Jun 06 '13 at 18:09

Garrett Davis

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '13 at 19:24

Our apologies for this change - we've reverted this change and will take precaution to avoid these things in the future. Thank you for the report.

We've added another parameter to use in your query if you want to get the city name without the state. Documentation updated: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/get-autocomplete-data/

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