Questions tagged [facebook-ads-api]

The Facebook Ads API (aka Marketing API) is used by application developers to create, manage and measure ad campaigns that run on Facebook.

The Facebook Marketing API (previously referred to as Ads API) is an interface into Facebook to create ads, manage campaigns, and measure the performance of a campaign. The Facebook Marketing API has various levels of access, some of which may require an application and review process. See Facebook's Marketing APIs access documentation for more details.

The Facebook Marketing API is a subset of the Facebook Graph API where requests and responses are sent over HTTP and the responses are usually returned as JSON.

The Facebook hosted documentation is available here: Facebook Marketing API Documentation

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Unable to add users to Facebook Custom Audience through Koala gem

I am unable to add users to a custom audience. I am getting a return value of true (success), however after waiting, no users are ever added to the list. I have used the same list through the power editor and have 90% matches, however when the same…
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Error message facebook ads-api advertising an event with ads_management permission of the user

im having difficulties by trying to advertise an event through the facebook ads api. My facebook app has the "reate_event,manage_pages,read_stream,ads_management" permission of the user, who set up an event on facebook. When i call the facebook ads…
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Did the city search data from the Facebook Ads API suddenly change?

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":…
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Facebook Ad Campaign Budget Update Fails

We are able to update ad campaign name using Facebook Ads API, but when we are trying to update any budget for the same campaign, we are getting "User request limit reached" error. What may be the reason behind this?
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Ads API: Implementing Partner Categories asks for account to be white listed. How to get white listed?

It seems that an account needs to be white listed somewhere to be able to use the new Partner Category feature. Anybody familiar with this? We tested with the account that is white listed for API access and get error back from Facebook with the…
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Post a message on Facebook using FB.api

I write down a code in javascript for posting message on Face-Book. I posted it successfully but it's always showing only me privacy statement. I really want to post this message publicly. I try to set privacy = { 'value': 'EVERYONE' }; . still…
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Facebook Ads API through FQL

Facebook offers an API for ads: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/ In the docs they only describe how to do requests through the graph API. Are there correspondent FQL tables as well? I'd like to use querying:…
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Ads API - Custom Audiences - Error Code #U8i8

We had a client using the Ads API to upload a batch of phone numbers for Custom Audiences who received the error code #U8i8 without any additional information. Cluster ID was 6006341262522. We also saw the error a while back during initial…
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User request limit reached on updating campaign budget in the Ads API

It seems that changing campaign budgets has a much lower rate limit than updating other options: http://developers.facebridge.net/bugs/285486761555036?browse=search_50da9ab10555f6203542865 Even changing the budget three times in quick succession…
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Adjust a Facebook app that was created on a normal account which is now a 'Ads account'

When going to the 'apps' link in the topmenu on http://developers.facebook.com, it always redirects me to the Ads Management page. I closed my Ads-account 1 week ago, but this does not help. It's really annoying b/c I can't manage or add any apps…
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facebook ads daily stats change after collection

I'm writing service which is gathering facebook ads statistics on the daily basis. The problem is that my collected stats mismatch facebook stats for the particular time period in the past. For example: my ad account time zone is UTC+2 and today is…
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(#4) Application request limit reached - ADS API

Earlier today my application started receiving this API return: {     "error": {        "message": "(# 4) Application request limit reached",        "type": "OAuthException"        "code": 4     } } The call in question is this: I've understood the…
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Reach and Social Reach are zero when we specify date criteria

We try to get the unique stats on Facebook Ads API and we've some difficult to get. Currently, we can only pull the reach (unique_impressions) and the social reach (social_unique_impressions) for one day otherwise when we specify date criteria these…
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Using PreviewCSS from Facebook Ads API

As described here, you can fetch a CSS file, for use with the Preview HTML for Ads that the documentation also describes. The problem is that the css file, when downloaded, contains elements like…
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How to check audit status of creative in facebook ads api

I want to create new creative and check its audit status in facebook ads api. I want to know whether that creative is approved or rejected. One more question i have , what is the use of adgroup. In documentation they have audit status for adgroup…
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