The app ID specified within the "fb:app_id" meta tag was invalid

Question

I tried to enable Facebook Insights for my web. I added my page's APP_ID to fb:admins to enable every admin of my page to access Insights when logged into Facebook as Page. But when I try to save the dialog message appears:

The app ID "123,123,123,123,123" specified within the "fb:app_id" meta tag was invalid.

I double checked my app ID and it's correct.

Diplomacy

Answer 1

Only personal IDs are allowed in the fb:admins meta tag. Application IDs won't work, even though they are actually valid (in contrary to what the error message says).

Optionally, it may also work with page_id:

<meta property="fb:page_id" content="395450240451647" />

The suggested app_iddidn't work at all :(

Diplomacy

fb:page_id was rejected by the sharing debugger developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing – Bureaucracy

this does not work – Colier

Answer 2

To link Domain Insights to an app rather than a user, you need to use the fb:app_id tag:

<meta property="fb:app_id" content="your_app_id" />

Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/insights/

Wanda

~"12345667 is not a valid id" - in contrary page_id did work. – Conveyance

the link is broken – Radiotelephony

the link is broken, check updated link below developers.facebook.com/search/… – Biddable

Answer 3

You have to make public you app to start works.

Ret

Answers that guess at an underlying problem without first clarifying the question through comments tend to be risky, and unfortunately, since this question has an accepted answer that appears to contradict this, it doesn't appear the risk paid off. – Parvis

This really can be the cause of exactly that message. Helped me. Thank you! – Biblioclast

Answer 4

error invalid fb:app_id is sometimes misleading. The account you are using to test this needs to be added into test users list of facebook app. Or try to test using the admin account.

Testis

Answer 5

Few steps: 1- check your robots.txt, you shouldn't block: facebookexternalhit. Example:

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow:

2- check if your app is not in development App Mode: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/<your_app_id>/dashboard/

Casease

Answer 6

Sometime your facebook information already crawl by facebook and it will be cache

You need to clear there cache to test again

You can access this link : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

paste your clink you want to test

Click Crawl again

Moneylender

Can I ask you if that I'm getting the error in the debugging tool! (Invalid App ID The specified 'fb:app:id' property is not a valid app ID.) Not sure why as I'm getting images and url and Open Graph properties ok so I'm able to share. pages to facebook but having to use Tagz to do this process. I'm just confused if I'm setup ok with it like this. – Posthaste