fatsecret Platform API Documentation

Every method call to the fatsecret API may return an error instead of the expected results due to bugs in your application's code or fatsecret's servers. Here you will find all of the potential errors that could be returned.


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<error xmlns="http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation=" http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/fatsecret.xsd">
     <code>4</code>
     <message>Invalid signature method: oauth_signature_method 'PLAINTEXT'</message>
</error>


{
	"error": {
		"code": "4",
		"message": "Invalid signature method: oauth_signature_method 'PLAINTEXT'"
	}
}

Error Codes

CODE	TYPE	DESCRIPTION
1	General	An unknown error occurred: '<details>'
2	OAuth 1.0	Missing required oauth parameter: '<details>'
3	OAuth 1.0	Unsupported oauth parameter: '<details>'
4	OAuth 1.0	Invalid signature method: '<details>'
5	OAuth 1.0	Invalid consumer key: '<details>'
6	OAuth 1.0	Invalid/expired timestamp: '<details>'
7	OAuth 1.0	Invalid/used nonce: '<details>'
8	OAuth 1.0	Invalid signature: '<details>'
9	OAuth 1.0	Invalid access token: '<details>'
10	General	Unknown method: '<details>'
11	General	Application request limit reached: '<details>'
12	General	User is performing too many actions: '<details>'
13	OAuth 2.0	Invalid token: '<details>'
14	OAuth 2.0	Missing scope: '<details>'
20	General	System temporarily unavailable: '<details>'
21	General	Invalid IP address detected: '<details>'
22	General	Invalid request: '<details>'
23	General	Api not found
24	General	A timeout has occurred
101	Parameter	Missing required parameter: '<details>'
102	Parameter	Invalid integer value: '<details>'
103	Parameter	Invalid double value: '<details>'
104	Parameter	Invalid decimal value: '<details>'
105	Parameter	Invalid long value: '<details>'
106	Parameter	Invalid ID: '<details>'
107	Parameter	Value out of range: '<details>'
108	Parameter	Invalid Type: '<details>'
109	Parameter	Character limit exceeded: '<details>'
201	Application	Activity not found: '<details>'
202	Application	Shift To and Shift From must be different: '<details>'
203	Application	Too many minutes: '<details>'
204	Application	Date selected does not have any activity to default: '<details>'
205	Application	Date must be within 2 days from today: '<details>'
206	Application	Cannot update weight for an earlier date: '<details>'
207	Application	Date selected does not have any food entries to copy: '<details>'
208	Application	Invalid region: '<details>'
209	Application	Activity cannot be modified: '<details>'
210	Application	User cannot have templates set: '<details>'