News for Developers

Introducing Graph API v20.0 and Marketing API v20.0

Today, we are releasing Facebook Graph API v20.0 and Marketing API v20.0. As part of this release, we are highlighting changes below that we believe are relevant to parts of our developer community. These changes include announcements, product updates, and notifications on deprecations on relevant application(s) integrations with our platform. ...

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May 21, 2024

Additional Questions Added to Data Protection Assessment

As previously announced in October 2023, as part of Meta’s commitment to protecting people’s privacy, we update the Data Protection Assessment continuously in line with current privacy and security practices.This month (February 2024), we’ll be enhancing the Data Protection Assessment questionnaire by adding questions related to personnel security...

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February 15, 2024

Page Insights API Updates

As we migrate from Classic Pages to the new Page experience on Facebook, we will be deprecating a number of Page Insights API metrics. Below we will include the details that are relevant to the developer community. These changes include notifications on deprecations that we believe are relevant to your application(s)’ integration with our platform....

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December 14, 2023

Introducing Required Actions Dashboard for Developers

Updated March 19, 2024Launched last year in closed beta, we’re excited to share that Required actions dashboard will be available to most app administrators in April 2024!...

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November 8, 2023

Help brands close more business with Click-to-Message + Call Prompt

Today Meta is announcing the general availability of the Click-to-Message + Call Prompt ad product. This is Meta’s first ad product to drive Messenger calls from consumers to a brand’s Facebook page. This product enables brands to target their best prospects at the beginning of a Messenger conversation with the opportunity to receive a brand’s...

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October 11, 2023

Meet the Developers - React @ Meta Edition (Vitalii Topoliuk)

This article was written in collaboration with Vitalii Topoliuk, a Software Engineer at Meta and Sean Keegan, a Developer Advocate at Meta.For today's interview, we have Vitalii Topoliuk, a Software Engineer on the Messenger Desktop App team at Meta. Vitalii’s team works on the desktop version of Messenger, which enables you to text, call, and stay...

Developer Tools Open Source

June 28, 2023

Marketing API Sandbox capability now re-enabled

We are excited to share that we have brought back Marketing API Sandbox Ad Accounts, a way for developers to test their APIs against the Marketing API.What is a Marketing API Sandbox Ad Account?The Marketing API Sandbox Ad Account is a testing ad account associated with an app and configured from developer.facebook.com to allow for API access to a...

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June 21, 2023

Uncovering the Unknown Unknown

Meta has an ecosystem of products that are used by billions of users every day, whether for social connections or for business engagement. These billions of users also ask us to continually and–at an accelerated pace–deliver new functionality and improvements in our products. Due to the large user base, we deliver thousands of code changes each day...

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May 16, 2023

Dynamic Video as Primary Media for Collection Ads Now Available in Marketing API

Instant Experiences are a full-screen, mobile optimized post-click ad destination that loads nearly instantaneously from ads in Feed. Within an Instant Experience, people can watch engaging videos and photos, swipe through carousels, tilt to pan and explore lifestyle images with tagged products - all in a single ad.Collection Ads let people move...

Developer Tools 2023

May 11, 2023