Facebook Ads API - Batch Requesting Targeting Search

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I am having trouble with submitting batch requests for the Facebook Ads API, and I was wondering if anyone could provide insight on the below error.

I am attempting to take a list of artists, just 50 in this simplified example, and then submit a TargetingSearch request for those artists. However, I'm having trouble getting the request to pass through correctly to Facebook. You could imagine a case where I'm passing thousands of artists into here.

I've been using these two resources for batch requesting ad/ad-set insights in the facebook-ads-api for Python as a reference: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-python-ads-sdk/issues/116 https://github.com/linpingta/facebook-related/blob/master/facebook-ads-sdk-example/insight_related.py

My code:

import time
list_of_artists = ['Adele','Alessia Cara','Ariana Grande','Big Sean','Blake Shelton','Brantley Gilbert','Brett Young','Bruno Mars','Calvin Harris','Camila Cabello','Carrie Underwood','Chris Brown','Chris Stapleton','Chuck Berry','Cole Swindell','Dierks Bentley','DJ Khaled','Ed Sheeran','Eminem','Eric Church','Future','G-Eazy','Gucci Mane','James Arthur','Jason Aldean','John Legend','Jon Pardi','Josh Turner','Julia Michaels','Justin Bieber','Justin Timberlake','Katy Perry','Kehlani','Keith Urban','Kelsea Ballerini','Kendrick Lamar','Kenny Chesney','Khalid','Kodak Black','Kygo','Kyle Harvey','Lady Gaga','Lil Yachty','Lorde','Luis Fonsi','Luke Bryan','Luke Combs','Machine Gun Kelly (Rapper)']

def success_callback(response):
    batch_body_responses.append(response.body())

def error_callback(response):
    # Error handling here
    pass

def get_id_list(art_search_list):
    batches = []
    batch_body_responses = []
    your_app_id = ''
    your_app_secret = ''
    your_access_token = ''
    api = FacebookAdsApi.init(your_app_id, your_app_secret, your_access_token)
    batch_limit = 25
    for batch in generate_batches(art_search_list, batch_limit):
        next_batch = api.new_batch()
        for art in batch:
            requests = TargetingSearch.search(params = {'q': art,'type': 'adinterest'})
            for req in requests:
                # adding a print to see what req looks like
                print req
                next_batch.add_request(req, success_callback, error_callback)
        batches.append(next_batch)

    for batch_request in batches:
        batch_request.execute()
        time.sleep(5)

print batch_body_responses

get_id_list(list_of_artists)

This results in the below error:

Note: the TargetingSearch is from the print req above.

 {
    "audience_size": 30176300,
    "id": "6003173089178",
    "name": "Adele",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Adele"
    ],
    "topic": "People"
}
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
 in ()
     33     print batch_body_responses
     34 
---> 35 get_id_list(list_of_artists)
     36 
     37 # # #################

 in get_id_list(art_search_list)
     24                 # adding a print to see what req looks like
     25                 print req
---> 26                 next_batch.add_request(req, success_callback, error_callback)
     27         batches.append(next_batch)
     28 

//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/facebookads/api.pyc in add_request(self, request, success, failure)
    445                 A dictionary describing the call.
    446         """
--> 447         updated_params = copy.deepcopy(request._params)
    448         if request._fields:
    449             updated_params['fields'] = ','.join(request._fields)

AttributeError: 'TargetingSearch' object has no attribute '_params'

If I could correctly pass the batches to Facebook, I would expect an answer that gave me the TargetingSearch results for each artist. Here's an example for Adele, but you could imagine this being replicated for each:

[ {
    "audience_size": 30176300,
    "id": "6003173089178",
    "name": "Adele",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Adele"
    ],
    "topic": "People"
},  {
    "audience_size": 20449710,
    "id": "6003701797690",
    "name": "21 (Adele album)",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "21 (Adele album)"
    ],
    "topic": "News and entertainment"
},  {
    "audience_size": 256080,
    "disambiguation_category": "Song",
    "id": "6005916496872",
    "name": "Someone like You (Adele song)",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Someone like You (Adele song)"
    ],
    "topic": "News and entertainment"
},  {
    "audience_size": 130230,
    "disambiguation_category": "Home",
    "id": "6002994499323",
    "name": "Adele Live",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Adele Live"
    ]
},  {
    "audience_size": 31410,
    "disambiguation_category": "Song",
    "id": "6004484416351",
    "name": "Rumour Has It (Adele song)",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Rumour Has It (Adele song)"
    ],
    "topic": "News and entertainment"
},  {
    "audience_size": 4560,
    "disambiguation_category": "Public Figure",
    "id": "6003446313480",
    "name": "Adele Parks",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Adele Parks"
    ],
    "topic": "People"
},  {
    "audience_size": 2290,
    "id": "6002970343768",
    "name": "Adele ring",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Adele ring"
    ],
    "topic": "Education"
},  {
    "audience_size": 990,
    "disambiguation_category": "Musician/Band",
    "id": "6003213600533",
    "name": "Adele - Official Website",
    "path": [
        "Interests",
        "Additional Interests",
        "Adele - Official Website"
    ]
}]

I think I'm having trouble understanding how to pass around / customize the requests and generate them in a batch that can be executed.

-Thanks, Jordan

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