News for Developers

Listening to our Community: Messenger Provides More Time to Adapt to New Policies and Announces One-time Notification API

Today, we are sharing a new effective date for the policy changes that we announced on August 29, 2019 to give developers and businesses additional time to prepare for the policies and incorporate new messaging features. The policy changes will now go into effect on March 4, 2020. Based off feedback from our community, we identified additional use...

Developer Policy Platforms

December 20, 2019

Dashboard improvements give developers more information and control

We’ve released today new features in the App Dashboard that will give developers additional information and insight into our permissions process and ultimately make the app review process easier for developers. App Review enables Facebook to understand how developers are using and accessing the platform, and during this process, developers request...

Platforms Programs

December 17, 2019

Facebook and Microsoft Partnering on Remote Development

We’re making Visual Studio Code the default development environment at Facebook and teaming with Microsoft to help enhance their remote development extensions in an effort to enable engineers to do remote development at scale.History Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some...

Developer Tools Open Source

November 19, 2019

Join us at F8 on May 5th and 6th, 2020 in San Jose, CA

F8, Facebook's annual developer conference gives us an opportunity to spotlight our global community, highlight the latest technology from our family of apps, and share our vision for the future we’re building together. I am really excited to share with all of you that F8 will take place on May 5th and 6th, 2020 at the McEnery Convention Center in...

2020 2019

November 19, 2019

Changes to Groups API Access

Since April of 2018, we’ve been reviewing the ways that people can use Facebook to share data with outside companies. We’ve removed or restricted a number of our developer APIs, such as the Groups API, which provides an interface between Facebook and apps that can integrate with a group.Before April 2018, group admins could authorize an app for a...

Platforms 2019

November 5, 2019

Introducing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0

Today we’re releasing Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0, which features a new Ad Volume API that will help advertisers understand how many ads they’re running and prepare for the upcoming ads limitations that will be introduced next year. Ad Limits and the Ad Volume API: ...

Business Tools 2019

October 31, 2019

Messenger Graph API v5.0 Release

We’re excited to share some updates to the Messenger platform as part of Facebook’s Graph API v5.0 release. Here’s a quick summary of all that’s new: Easily select app for click to Messenger campaigns...

Business Tools Platforms

October 30, 2019

Building Sustainable Ecosystems: Education

Developers, startups and technology businesses all around the world — these are the groups my team and I passionately support. Internally, we call you “innovators”, because we think that fundamentally you have the desire and ambition to leverage technology to solve problems for people. Some of you are students, professionals, serial entrepreneurs,...

Platforms Programs

October 18, 2019

Launch of Instagram Basic Display API

March 30, 2020 Update: We understand these are challenging times for our developer community, so we are postponing disabling the Instagram Legacy API Platform by 90 days to June 29, 2020. Remaining endpoints on the Legacy API will no longer be available after this date and your app’s users may lose functionality. We urge you to migrate to the...

Business Tools 2019

October 15, 2019