Threads API Troubleshooting

Publishing Does Not Return a Media ID

If you are able to create a container for a video but the POST /{threads-user-id}/threads_publish endpoint does not return the published media ID, then you can get the container's publishing status by querying the GET /{threads-container-id} endpoint. This endpoint will return one of the following:

• EXPIRED — The container was not published within 24 hours and has expired.
• ERROR — The container failed to complete the publishing process.
• FINISHED — The container and its media object are ready to be published.
• IN_PROGRESS — The container is still in the publishing process.
• PUBLISHED — The container's media object has been published.

In case of error the endpoint will return one of the following error messages:

• FAILED_DOWNLOADING_VIDEO
• FAILED_PROCESSING_AUDIO
• FAILED_PROCESSING_VIDEO
• INVALID_ASPEC_RATIO
• INVALID_BIT_RATE
• INVALID_DURATION
• INVALID_FRAME_RATE
• INVALID_AUDIO_CHANNELS
• INVALID_AUDIO_CHANNEL_LAYOUT
• UNKNOWN

We recommend querying a container's status once per minute, for no more than 5 minutes.

Example Request

curl -s -X GET \
"https://graph.threads.net/v1.0/<MEDIA_CONTAINER_ID>?fields=status,error_message&access_token=<THREADS_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

Example Response

{
  "status": "FINISHED",
  "id": "17889615691921648"
}

Example Response in case of error

{
  "status": "ERROR",
  "id": "17889615691921648",
  "error_message": "FAILED_DOWNLOADING_VIDEO",
}

Retrieve Publishing Quota Limit

To validate that a user has not exhausted their publishing API quota limit, they can make a call to the GET /{ig-user-id}/threads_publishing_limit endpoint. This will return a user's current Threads API usage total.

Example Request

curl -s -X GET
"https://graph.threads.net/v1.0/<THREADS_USER_ID>/threads_publishing_limit?fields=quota_usage,config&access_token=<THREADS_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "quota_usage": 0,
      "config": {
        "quota_total": 250,
        "quota_duration": 86400
      }
    }
  ]
}