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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 657

How to set time_ranges for Ad Report Stats?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/adreportstats/

Based on the documentation

time_ranges Array of timestamp objects {time_start, time_stop} or date objects {day, month, year}.

So in the Graph API Explorer, I am setting the time_ranges value as 

time_ranges=[{"day_start":{"day":1,"month":11,"year":2013}},{"day_stop":{"day":10,"month":11,"year":2013}}]

This returns me an error

{
  "error": {
    "message": "(#100) Please set time_start and time_stop or day_start and day_stop.", 
    "type": "OAuthException", 
    "code": 100
  }
}

I have removed other part of the above URL for brevity. I have tried with date_preset value and the report returns data.

Thanks.

EDIT: The complete URL (sans the valid account id)

https://graph.facebook.com/act_12345/reportstats?data_columns=["account_id","account_name","campaign_id","campaign_name","impressions","clicks","spend"]&time_ranges=["{'day_start':{'day':1,'month':11,'year':2013}}","{'day_stop':{'day':10,'month':11,'year':2013}}"]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1055

Answers (3)

Giovanni Cappellotto
Giovanni Cappellotto

Reputation: 4875

I had the same problem, try using:

time_ranges=["{'day_start':{'day':1,'month':11,'year':2013}, 'day_stop':{'day':10,'month':11,'year':2013}}"]

instead of:

time_ranges=["{'day_start':{'day':1,'month':11,'year':2013}}","{'day_stop':{'day':10,'month':11,'year':2013}}"]

Complete URL:

https://graph.facebook.com/act_12345/reportstats?data_columns=["account_id","account_name","campaign_id","campaign_name","impressions","clicks","spend"]&time_ranges=["{'day_start':{'day':1,'month':11,'year':2013}, 'day_stop':{'day':10,'month':11,'year':2013}}"]

I opened a documentation issue at https://developers.facebook.com/x/bugs/1423346704577387/

Upvotes: 0

user3019474
user3019474

Reputation: 41

I had (have!) an identical issue.

I worked around it by using time_start and time_stop instead of day_start and day_stop. Stupid, I know... but it's what worked for me.

So to get 1-day's worth of data (the 19th of Nov for example):

 &time_ranges=["{'time_start': '2013-11-19','time_stop':'2013-11-20'}"]

Upvotes: 4

Tommy Crush
Tommy Crush

Reputation: 2800

Oddly enough, the example appears to be an array of strings that are json objects. So try changing this line:

time_ranges=[{"day_start":{"day":1,"month":11,"year":2013}},{"day_stop":{"day":10,"month":11,"year":2013}}]

to this: 

time_ranges=["{'day_start':{'day':1,'month':11,'year':2013}}","{'day_stop':{'day':10,'month':11,'year':2013}}"]

Upvotes: 0

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