Ads and Commerce

Ad Account Targetingvalidation

Updated: Oct 3, 2025
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Reading

Query the ads framework for validation

Example

GET /v25.0/{ad-account-id}/targetingvalidation HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.facebook.com
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Parameters

Parameter Description
id_list
list<int64>
List of IDs to validate. Supports interest and categories.
is_exclusion
boolean

Default value: false
Whether the targeting IDs can be used in exclusion.
name_list
list<string>
List of names to validate. Supports interest and categories.
targeting_list
list<JSON or object-like arrays>
List with targeting type and ID pairs
type enum {interests, education_statuses, education_schools, education_majors, work_positions, work_employers, interested_in, relationship_statuses, college_years, family_statuses, industries, life_events, political_views, politics, behaviors, income, net_worth, home_type, home_ownership, home_value, ethnic_affinity, generation, household_composition, moms, office_type, user_adclusters}
id int64
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Fields

Reading from this edge will return a JSON formatted result: 
{
"data": [],
"paging": {}
}
data
A list of AdAccountTargetingUnified nodes.
paging
For more details about pagination, see the Graph API guide.

Error Codes

Error Code Description
80004
There have been too many calls to this ad-account. Wait a bit and try again. For more info, please refer to /docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting#ads-management.
100
Invalid parameter
200
Permissions error
190
Invalid OAuth 2.0 Access Token

Creating

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.

Updating

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Deleting

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