Facebook Page Creation API throttle limit - facebook

I am building an application for clients to be able to create Facebook Page in their account using my own Admin Access Token.
I have Standard Access approved for my Facebook application already.
I tried to create a few test pages using FB Graph Explorer and I succeeded.
I ran into a problem when I tried to create a page using Code in Classic ASP, it says Have reached page creation api throttle limit
FR- https://www.screencast.com/t/hTd4RDozov
I tried to search into the Facebook documentation to find out that when I can get out of this error, but couldn't find any response.
Are there anyone person who has got this error before? Or can someone tell when I can get rid out of this error?
Many thanks

Currently experiencing the same behavior. Talking to Facebook support they say the default limit for page creation is 2 pages per month. This number might be negotiable depending on your usecase.

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Graph API empty events list of page [duplicate]

Using the latest version (2.12) of the Facebook API I'm trying to get (public) events for a page, using the Graph API Explorer.
However, I can't seem to get it working:
When I hover over the greyed out "id" or "name" on the left, it says "Field is empty or disallowed by the access token".
Now the page I'm using as an exmple here is Techcrunch, and they have plenty of events coming up. So "empty" doesn't seem to be the issue.
On the "disallowed" side I've checked the API reference on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/events/.
However, I can't seem to find any issue here either. It says "Reading Page events requires a valid Page access token or User access token with basic permissions.".
What am I missing here? Any hints are greatly appreciated!
Visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/breaking-changes#pages-4-4
Currently Facebook is not returning events for pages using Pages API unless you use an user accesss token and that user has been invited to any of the events of the page or is attending/interested in any of the events of the page.
As unknow_b said :
currently to access events you can also use a user endpoint such as ‘/me/events’ or ‘/me/events/not-replied’ using an access token valid for that user. you can get the events that the user was invited to or is going/interested
But the access token user, is only working for 1 hour !
Does someone have another better idea?
I'm trying to do the same thing: getting public events from a page. Related to the above suggestions:
I tried the short-lived user access token two weeks ago, which worked for a short time. Now it does not anymore. Does it for any of you?
Both the long-lived user token, a page token generated with either a short- or long-lived user token do also not return any events.
At https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/#platforms, Facebook states:
Beginning April 4, 2018, all apps, including those formerly approved, must undergo App Review in order to gain access to the Events API, Groups API, and Pages API. Apps accessing the Events API and Groups API will lose access and require review once App Review resumes.
So being reviewed might help. I will report further.
Update 1: an answer on this related bug reports states it more clearly:
App review required to use the following edges: GET /page/events and GET /me/events
Meanwhile they cancelled all pending review requests for the Graph API 3.0 changes, so I have to resubmit.
Update 2: My project got rejected & I'm not bothering to continue it now.
Yep. Facebook has taken down the Graph API for page access tokens. I had this code in production for 2 years and it worked great. The only way to retrieve data (or was a week or so ago), was a temporary user token that lasts about 2 hours. It's totally broken my band's schedule page. I've been through every avenue and even spoke with a facebook ad team employee on the phone that was aware of it. She seemed to empathize but had no solution for me. I would count on it being down for a while.
I just created a python script, you can see here. It queries the given facebook page and it's events, and puts the data into a mysql table.
It looks like it won't be working anymore due to the scandal with Facebook Analytics (see Why does Facebook Graph API say my account is non-active?).
In the popular plugin facebook-events-by-location-core, you can take a look into the issue#29 discussion. It's well explained there, and I don't think so there's a way we'll get the data in a public API available anymore.
There were also some rumours it was a competition for their (dead?) Facebook Local app, but not sure about this.
I have finally figured out a work around for this. On your fb application, you have to disable the secret key requirement. This can be found under the advance settings of your fb application console. It's called " Require App Secret".
Once you generate a fb PAGE access token, you get a fb page token, and then extend it. here is the token debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
You can extend the access token programmatically as explained here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/expiration-and-extension
AND
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/#pagetokens
OR
There is also an extend tool in the access token debugger (just click on the debug and the extend button is bottom left): https://developers.facebook.com/tools/accesstoken/
Yes , we had a working product back in 2016 ( almost like it's successor Fb Local ) . We were monetised and ready and selling events tickets on the messenger chatbot.
Idea was to solve discovery + booking for hyperlocal events. We went out of business and now its a heart ache to see Fb local.
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Facebook Marketing API - no app?

I want to pull ad data (campaigns, ad sets, & metrics like clicks/impressions/ctr) from Facebook using their API and put it into a database. Facebook's documentation says I need to create an app on their site in order to access the API, but that doesn't seem right. I'm not trying to create an app for my fb page, just want to extract data.
My first choice was to use an ODBC driver from
CData
, which does allowed me to successfully pull data from AdAccounts but threw an error when trying to get AdSets or AdStatistics:
OAuthException Code 10: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this action.
I made sure to add in a target='act_{myAdAccountId}' parameter to the query, as per their documentation, but it didn't help. I figured this meant I didn't configure the driver properly, so maybe I'd have better luck just coding up a solution in python or php.
Next, I tried to run similar API calls using the Graph API Explorer and got the same error message. I created an access token that had all the extended permissions and then made a request to
GET /v2.4/act_{myAdAccountId}/adcampaigns.
This gave me the exact same OAuthException Code 10 error that I was getting through the ODBC Driver.
Can someone confirm whether it's possible to pull data from the API without building an app? If so, what permissions do I need to enable for my account? I'm already an Ad Account Admin in the "Ads Manager", and couldn't find anywhere else to set permissions.
Thanks!
Apps have no direct relation to Pages. You need to create an App for any API access. I did not use the Ads API yet, but i assume you need to use the ads_management permission with your App.
How to create Apps and authorize with the required permissions is explained in the docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs
Since you asked about Login Review, all the information you need about that can be found in the docs too: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/review
I understand this is an old post, but in case if anyone was looking at a similar situation, I was able to call the Facebook Marketing API without building an app.
I posted a similar answer on another more recent question (Do I need a publicly accessible webserver in order to user Facebook's marketing API?), and was curious if this situation puzzled anyone else, which led me to here.
I wrote my API calls using Python 2.7 on Juypter notebook, and I just followed Facebook's Marketing API documentation and examples, modifying with my access tokens and account information.

Receiving Facebook app error alerts - invalid parameters for "plugin:post"

Starting on July 30th, and every 3 days since, we've been getting this alert for our Facebook app, which is used on our site for Facebook Login and social posting:
In the last three hours 100% of the calls to the method plugin:post
resulted in errors.
Error Code 100
Error Description Invalid parameter
Error Count 5,971
Thing is, I have no idea what "plugin:post" is. Google and stackoverflow don't seem to know either, for that matter :) And 5,971 instances of it in 3 hours is more traffic than I would expect on our site.
Our codebase does not contain any references to "plugin:post", so I'm assuming "plugin:post" is an alias for some other functionality within the Graph API. I just don't know what. Anyone have an idea?
I did see there there is social plugin which uses an "fb:post" FBML style tag (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/embedded-posts/) that sounds like it could be related, but we don't use that plugin.
Any insight would be appreciated, thanks!
[Edit 9/13 for Azhar's question:]
I checked the July 2013 Breaking Changes, and nothing seemed like it would impact us.
[Edit 9/13 for Tobi's question:]
We're using:
- Open Graph API for social posting via the Feed dialog to either the user's news feed or a friend's news feed
- Facebook Login API to allow users to log into our site,
- Facebook Javascript api for geting user info (e.g. FB.api('/me'...), F.api('/me/friends'...), etc. ), and other data via FQL FB.api("/fql"...). I've verified that none of the FQL statements are impacted by the July 2013 changes.
I would post some code, but we have a fair amount of FB-related Javascript on the site, and I'm not sure which is the one causing the problem.
My Facebook app is receiving the exact same error message alerts from Facebook. I have exhausted all possible solutions and investigated every aspect of my logic, and I have concluded this is a bug on Facebook's side until someone can prove otherwise.
I have ignored these alerts so far and there has been no impact to my website or my users. Every integration point with Facebook works flawlessly using my personal Facebook account, test Facebook users and other non-admin users across all major browsers. Nothing appears wrong or broken.
When I investigate my Facebook app's insights and look at the developer view for activity and errors, I see plugin:post failures for the current month but when I go back one month there are absolutely zero API errors and it says "No API Errors". This is obviously wrong because I was getting alerts last month and this helps support my theory that the issue is on Facebook's side.
Turns out this was all due to a naming conflict in the HTML of our page. We had a page element with a class name of "fb-post". Facebook apparently treats this a "fb:post". Since our "fb-post" was not an actual FBML tag, it does not have the other parameters Facebook looks for in a post. So Facebook started giving alerts.
I suspect this is due to a change on Facebook's part, as we've had these "fb-post" elements in place for years now, without issue.
Incidentally, this is also the case for any elements with a class name of "fb-name", as Facebook treats that as "fb:name".

Stop receiving real time updates for a Facebook page

I have followed the instructions on this page:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#realtime
But I can't get the Deleting an App section to work.
This is the case with both the PHP SDK and with Facebook's Graph API Explorer.
First I add an app to get real time updates by POSTing to
/<page_id>/tabs
with the app_id parameter set to my App ID. I also pass an Access Token for the page.
This returns 'true' in the Graph Explorer, and '1' with the PHP SDK, which I understand means success in both cases. I know this is true as I have received data to my real time endpoint.
However, I also need to be able to delete these subscriptions, per page.
The documentation suggests this is done by performing a DELETE to
/<page_id>/tabs/app_<app_id>
Again passing the same Access Token as before.
In both the Graph Explorer and the PHP SDK, this returns:
(#100) Tab is not installed or not removable: <The same app_id I passed>
I've seen a couple of other people reporting the same issue, but apparently no solutions. If anyone has managed to figure this out, I would hugely appreciate your thoughts.
There are two possible alternatives:
Go to https://www.facebook.com/{page_id}/settings?tab=apps and manually remove the application from the page. If the app is not there, it has already been removed.
Or:
You can use the Real-time Update documentation and use a DELETE API call to unsubscribe the page from real-time updates. However, if your application is used with more than once page, it will also unsubscribe the other pages.

Having issue sharing my Websites post to Facebook's timeline

We want users to be able to post to their Facebook if they want to. We have it kind of working with the older Facebook profile but not with the new Timeline.
We want it to be like Tumblr where you can post/share to your Facebook account as much as you want.
Is there a limit of post that we can have a day per users or the via entire API in general?
We are using FB connect already of course!
The documentation for Facebook's Open Graph is probably the best place to start. Take a look at their best practices page, as well:
If your application is making too many calls, the API server might rate limit you automatically, returning an "API_EC_TOO_MANY_CALLS" error.