Version 2.12

Graph API | Marketing API

Changelog entries are categorized in the following way:

  • New Features — New products or services, including new nodes, edges, and fields.
  • Changes — Changes to existing products or services (not including Deprecations).
  • Deprecations — Existing products or services that are being removed.
  • 90-Day Breaking Changes — Changes and deprecations that will take effect 90 days after the version release date.

New Features, Changes, and Deprecations only affect this version. 90-Day Breaking Changes affect all versions.

Breaking Changes are not included here since they are not tied to specific releases.


Graph API

Released January 30, 2018 | Available until May 5, 2020 | Blog Post


New Features

No new features.


Changes

Webhooks

  • Page Topicsender_name and sender_id have been replaced with a single from property in Mentions for Workplace subscriptions.

Deprecations

No deprecations.


90-Day Breaking Changes

Events

  • GET /eventGET operations on the following fields now require an access token of an Admin of the Event.

    • is_draft
    • can_guests_invite
    • guest_list_enabled
    • attending
    • interested
    • declined
    • maybe
    • noreply
    • roles
    • ticket_tiers
    • feed
    • posts
    • comments
    • photos
    • live_videos

    In addition, the following fields have been deprecated:

    • is_viewer_admin
    • can_viewer_post
  • POST /eventPOST operations now require an access token of an Admin of the Event.
  • Event-Owned ObjectsGET operations on Event-owned objects now require an access token of an Admin of the Event. This affects the following nodes:

    • GET /post
    • GET /comment
    • GET /photo
    • GET /live_video

Groups

  • GET /groupGET operations on the following fields and edges now require an access token of an Admin of the Group:

    Fields

    • member_request_count
    • owner
    • privacy
    • updated_time

    Edges

    • GET /albums*
    • GET /admins
    • GET /docs*
    • GET /events*
    • GET /feed*
    • GET /files
    • GET /former_members
    • GET /groups*
    • GET /links*
    • GET /live_videos*
    • GET /member_requests
    • GET /members
    • GET /moderators
    • GET /posts*
    • GET /tagged
    • GET /videos*

    In the coming weeks, edges marked with an asterisk (*) will once again allow requests from non-Admin Group members. However, responses will not include User information unless the request is made with an access token of an Admin of the Group.

  • POST /groupPOST operations now require an access token of an Admin of the Group.
  • Group-Owned ObjectsGET operations on Group-owned objects now require an access token of an Admin of the Group. This affects the following nodes:

    • GET /album
    • GET /comment
    • GET /doc
    • GET /event
    • GET /live_video
    • GET /photo
    • GET /post

Pages

  • Impressions Reporting — Redefining the use of organic from not paid, not viral to not paid and introducing a new sets of metrics called nonviral which will match the old definition of organic from and earlier versions. The new relationship:

    • total impressions = paid impressions + organic impressions
    • organic impressions = viral impressions + nonviral impressions
This affects the following endpoints:
  • GET /page/insights
  • GET /post/insights
  • Insights — Changing the results returned by like and unlike metrics.

    The following like metrics:

    • /page/insights/page_fans_by_like_source_unique
    • /page/insights/page_fans_by_like_source

    now return:

    • Ads
    • Other
    • Page Suggestions
    • News Feed
    • Your Page
    • Restored Likes from Reactivated Accounts
    • Search

    The following unlike metrics:

    • /page/insights/page_fans_by_unlike_source_unique
    • /page/insights/page_fans_by_unlike_source

    now return:

    • Deactivated or Memorialized Account Removals
    • Suspicious Account Removals
    • Unlikes from Page, Posts, or News Feed
    • Unlikes from Search
    • Underage Account Removals
    • Unlikes from Page Suggestions
    • Other

Videos

  • Page-owned videos — The source field will no longer be returned for Page-owned videos unless the User making the request has a role on the owning Page. This affects the following endpoints:

    • GET /video
    • GET /post
    • GET /page/videos
    • GET /page/posts
    • GET /page/feed

Marketing API

Released January 30, 2018 | Available Until Aug 7, 2018 | Blog Post

Please refer to the blog post for a summary of changes.