Question

I’ve run into some snags in downloading reports through Facebook API.

From documentation https://developers.facebook.com/docs/payments/developer_reports_api/

#Example company access_token request

#Sample developer request for a daily detail report:
wget "https://paymentreports.facebook.com/234599349987627/report?
                                      date=2012-05-15&
                                      type=detail&
                                      access_token=234599349987627|aBc_dEFaEUZbqpatkrp8pbtwXyZ"

#The request above would return a file named 234599349987627_detail_2012-05-15.csv.zip.

However, when in a python script I am writing, using urllib2 to fetch the file described:

url = "https://paymentreports.facebook.com/%s/report?date=%s&type=%s&access_token=%s" % (COMPANY_ID, DATE, reporttype, ACCESS_TOKEN)
reportszipped = ZipFile(StringIO(urllib2.urlopen(url).read()))

I get an HTTP Error:
{"error":{"message":"Access denied.: Access denied due to invalid credentials."}}

I know that my company_id and access_token are correct, having followed the instructions described in the documentation to generate it (without errors). wget the same URL returns the same HTTP Error.

Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

Have you enabled an app for payments, since facebook states on the developer page that:

Before you can proceed, you’ll need to make sure that you’ve enabled
an app for payments, including setting up a company to receive
payments. Once you’ve done that, you’ll find your company ID and
secret on your Company Settings page.

Check out this page here.