Getting, (#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist error

Question

When i am trying to get data from facebook using graph api, i am getting this error,

{"error":
{"message":"(#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist: 124186682456_10151302011177457&access_token=REMOVED_ACCESS_TOKEN",
"type":"OAuthException",
"code":803}}

Can anyone help me in how to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance...

Solution 1

If that is an accurate representation of the error you're receiving, you're incorrectly appending the access token after a & character instead of a ?. You need to use ? for the start of the query string, and & to separate the parameters inside the query string

e.g. https://graph.facebook.com/124186682456_10151302011177457?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

Solution 2

Placement of access_token parameter immediately after ? has nothing to do with issue...

It could be that your URL is littered with %20 or similar stuff.

I got this error when trying a test example from Facebook API documentation, at first I have read highest voted answer, but moving access_token parameter immediately after ? didn't work, I then inspected URL more closely and found some of encoded spaces %20 that were stuck to parameter fields and some others, removing which fixed the issue.

try following URL (just replace access_token parameter with yours)

https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=place&fields=name,checkins,picture&q=cafe&center=40.7304,-73.9921&distance=1000&access_token=[YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]

If it works look for problem in Facebook parameter names

Hope this saves you some time.

Comments

[Mayank R Jain]

In my case, the error was : "message": "(#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist: 4oh4.php", and was due to not appending "act_" in front of the account number (parent_id='act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>'). You might want to check that.

[j413254]

FYI, this has now been deprecated. { "error": { "message": "(#12) Place Search API is deprecated for third parties effective v8.0 is deprecated for versions v8.0 and higher", "type": "OAuthException", "code": 12, "fbtrace_id": "xxx" } }