News for Developers

Important changes to categorizing campaigns with ads in the Special Ad Category or ads about Social Issues, Elections, or Politics

Beginning today, two important features are available to the special_ad_categories field in Marketing API v7.0 and above. These changes continue Facebook’s efforts to increase ad transparency and election integrity on Facebook and Instagram. They also help simplify the process of managing Special Ad Categories on our platform. Ads about social...

Business Tools Platforms

June 24, 2020

Introducing Graph API v7.0 and Marketing API v7.0

API Updates Provide Developers with Improved App Permissions and Campaign Controls New Requirements Outlined for Mobile Developers and Facebook App Review ...

Business Tools Platforms

May 5, 2020

Deadlines approaching for Special Ad Category

Today, we’re releasing Marketing API v6.0 and Graph API v6.0, and as part of this release, we want to remind developers on upcoming deadlines for Special Ad Categories.We’re also introducing a new feature to read Page data and announcing API deprecations. ...

Business Tools Platforms

February 3, 2020

Instagram Basic Display API: Long-Lived Access Tokens now available

March 30, 2020 Update: We understand these are challenging times for our developer community, so we are postponing disabling the Instagram Legacy API Platform by 90 days to June 29, 2020. Remaining endpoints on the Legacy API will no longer be available after this date and your app’s users may lose functionality. We urge you to migrate to the...

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January 14, 2020

Introducing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0

Today we’re releasing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0, which features a new Ad Volume API that will help advertisers understand how many ads they’re running and prepare for the upcoming ads limitations that will be introduced next year. Ad Limits and the Ad Volume API: ...

Business Tools 2019

October 31, 2019

Messenger Graph API v5.0 Release

We’re excited to share some updates to the Messenger platform as part of Facebook’s Graph API v5.0 release. Here’s a quick summary of all that’s new: Easily select app for click to Messenger campaigns...

Business Tools Platforms

October 30, 2019

Launch of Instagram Basic Display API

Business Tools 2019

October 15, 2019

Introducing Graph API v4.0, Marketing API v4.0

We've released the newest versions of Graph API (v4.0) and Marketing API (v4.0). The changes include improvements to managing business assets, ad creation, and Facebook Ad Insights. We're also announcing updates to Messenger API and the Facebook SDK and improvements to rate limiting.Starting with this release, the Graph API will be transitioning to...

Business Tools 2019

July 29, 2019

Introducing Graph API v3.3

We've released the newest versions of Graph API (v3.3), Marketing API (v3.3), Android/iOS SDK and Business SDK, which will include updates to the following: Graph API (v3.3)Graph API v3.3 includes updates to rate limiting for Pages API, Instagram, Messenger, and Ads Insights...