Request failed with status code 400

[vivianmauer]

Everything is fine, i changed anything and start getting this error

Request failed with status code 400
    at createError (.../node_modules/axios/lib/core/createError.js:16:15)
    at settle (.../node_modules/axios/lib/core/settle.js:18:12)
    at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (.../node_modules/axios/lib/adapters/http.js:192:11)
    at emitNone (events.js:111:20)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:208:7)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1055:12)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

i think could be some return that has changed in the graph api

[tobilg]

How are you using it, and are you sure you’re using an app access token?

[vivianmauer]

Yes i'm using an app access token, as i said, everything is fine. After some tests, i find this error when the api try to get events information.

"(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active accounts due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform"

Looks the Facebook restricted some information from events, but i could not find which in specific.

ps: I have all the necessary permissions

edit -----
When remove the "...event.fields..." works, but missing some informations

[tobilg]

The error message is a bit strange, because when using an app access token, no user account is involved. Removing the events.fields basically renders the tool as meaningless

[BigFoppa]

Facebook has shut down access to some data using the Graph API. This is in response to the Analytica scandal. We can only wait for more information.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/hard-questions-cambridge-analytica/

https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/205942813488872/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49417886/why-does-facebook-graph-api-say-my-account-is-non-active

/Big

[tobilg]

Thanks @BigFoppa! The error message couldn’t suck much more tbh, and FB is making strange moves.

I can only imagine that the problem lies in the attendance/rsvp counts, because IMO these are the only things related to users. I’ll try to very that over the weekend.

[BigFoppa]

All data from Events is blocked for the moment. You can using the Graph Explorer see that events-data is blocked to apps. Suck, is an understatement. The error you get is:

{
"error": {
"message": "(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active accounts due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 200,
"fbtrace_id": "GSO/a25jzqP"
}
}

The "non-active accounts" meaning is a bit cryptic. But all apps are blocked for Events-data. A call like this gives the error above for an app (not for Graph Explorer):

?ids=179082445563485&fields=id,name,events.fields(id)

/Big

[tobilg]

If this is correct, then it’s one of the most stupid things ever. Event Data would have nothing to do with user data if they’d just remove the attending/maybe/declined counts.

Not very well thought out apparently. Not that this surprises me.

[tobilg]

I tested this today, and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to access events data with an app access token.

I used the User Access Token from the Graph API Explorer to run the tests of this project, and it was successful. Maybe this could be an intermediate workaround?

Hi tobilg what steps did you take to make it work through User Access Token?
In the past I made this steps:
1 - You have to activate apps in your facebook profile (https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications)
2 - Register in https://developers.facebook.com/
3 - Create an app. It will generate an id.
4 - Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/accesstoken/ -> get the App Token

[tobilg]

@vrgomes You can go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/ and just copy the access token from there.

Make sure that the original Graph Explorer is selected in the application pulldown on the right side.

[BigFoppa]

Hmm, I always use a user-token in my app, Eventmap4u, and it doesn't work now. I can only get it to work within Graph Explorer (or if token is copied from GE) . I hope you can prove me wrong.

/Big

[tobilg]

@BigFoppa that's not what I was trying to say. If you're using the (User) access token copied from the Graph Explorer, it seems to work when passing it as FEBL_ACCESS_TOKEN env var. But it won't be possible if you use User access tokens generated by your app itself, at least at the moment.

[BigFoppa]

@tobilg we were writing at the same time, read your latest post after mine. We have the same understanding. The token from GE can be used for testing, but it is short-lived and expires too soon to be used in production.

/Big

[znortr]

Try to use an access token from an app that point to a real site online and not to localhost.
In my case, after this change, the api started to work again.

@znortr can you explain how to configure that?

Greetings.