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advertiser_ambiguous

Several Facebook Pages carry that advertiser name. Nothing was charged.

Status

HTTP 409, title Advertiser ambiguous. One of the the request itself errors. Branch on code, never on the status or the prose.

Common causes

  • Looking an advertiser up by a name more than one Page uses.

What to do

Several Facebook Pages carry that advertiser name. Pick one of candidates and ask again with its page_id. Nothing was charged.

Example

The body arrives as application/problem+json. Most responses add detail about the occurrence, and some add fields of their own.

{
  "type": "https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/errors/advertiser_ambiguous",
  "title": "Advertiser ambiguous",
  "status": 409,
  "code": "advertiser_ambiguous"
}