Monday 20 May 2019

Facebook marketing API is ridiculously bad

Hello,This is just a rant: I want to express to all of you how bad Facebook marketing API is. Having worked with beautifully crafted API like Stripe's, OpenTok, Twilio, DO and many more, I really wasn't expecting something so shitty coming from FBA few examples:1) Missing parameters error messages are not correct:A POST on https://graph.facebook.com/v3.3/XXX/adsets where a field is missing, but the name is there will result in a "error_user_msg": "The name field is required. Please complete the field to continue." You'll have to basically guess which field is missing2) In many cases, incorrect requests won't request a 400 bad request, but rather an "Unavailable endpoint" error3) I can't express how frustrating is the process to obtain an access_token, while being frustrating, it also doesn't make much sense on a security/best practises point of view (I'm talking about the short-lived vs long-lived tokens)

Submitted May 20, 2019 at 02:03PM by OogieFrenchieBoogie

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