Facebook API call for adinterestsuggestion

Question

I am upgrading the api calls for an application that we use inhouse so that it is compliant with the changes starting April 9th. I am looking at the following call for adinterestsuggestion and want to know if the syntax is correct. Because it is returning empty dataset and I am not sure what is wrong. I am trying this on the Facebook Graph Api explorer.

https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=adinterestsuggestion&interest_list=["soda","water"]&limit=&access_token=xyz I truly appreciate any feedback.

Thanks

Answer 1

The API is case sensitive which means your sample call doesn't work because there's no Interest called 'soda' or 'water' when I search the Interest list

There is however one called 'Soda' and one called 'Water' - the interest_list parameter you provide needs to match known Interests, which you already know exist from ads you've run before, or from the adinterest search type

This returns results for me: /search?type=adinterestsuggestion&interest_list=['Soda','Water']

  "data": [
    {
      "id": 6003677833118, 
      "name": "Knorr (brand)", 
      "audience_size": 11707059, 
      "path": [
      ], 
      "description": null
    }, 
    {
      "id": 6003115633342, 
      "name": "Deodorant", 
      "audience_size": 16299816, 
      "path": [
      ], 
      "description": null
    }, 
 ...