You are here: Photobucket API Help > References > Error Codes

Error Codes

You may receive any of the following error codes when using the Photobucket API.

Error Code Description
General Errors
001 Service currently unavailable
002 Missing scid
003 Missing sig
005 Missing service_token
006 Login failed: Invalid Session Key
007 Authentication failed
008 Authentication failed: User did not authorize API call.
009 Insufficient permissions
010 Missing version
011 Invalid version
012 Service Token Expired
013 User Authentication failed
100 Invalid method
101 Missing parameter
102 User not found
103 Invalid search query
104 Invalid characters in query
105 Invalid file for upload
106 Upload error
107 Invalid Album
108 Insufficient privileges to access private album
109 Album is over 1000 file limit
110 No file uploaded
111 Album is over the size limit of:
112 File has invalid MIME type
113 A file with this name already exists
114 Video server error:
115 Album name must be between 2 and 50 alphanumeric characters
116 Album already exists:
117 Missing album name
118 Missing email address
119 Missing url
120 Missing email body
121 Description too long
122 Filename must contain only letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens
123 Invalid Media URL
124 Invalid parameter:
125 Invalid image size:
126 Title too long
127 SWF file uploading is no longer available on free accounts...
128 Album not empty
129 Unable to delete album
130 Invalid upload type
131 The tag exceeds the maximum length
132 Tag link is invalid
133 Contact is invalid
134 Tag dimensions are invalid
135 Exceeded maximum number of tags
136 Tag is required
137 Tag ID is invalid
138 Tag is not owned by the authenticated user
139 The tag was not found
140 Either the tag or the coordinates are required for update
141 Media specified was not found
142 Rotation degrees must be in 90 degree increments
143 The album specified was not found
144 The album name is missing
145 The album depth was exceed for public / private
146 Unable to change public private settings
147 Failed changing the password
148 The privacy parameter is missing
149 The privacy parameter is invalid
150 Unable to save the media
151 The description parameter is required
152 The title parameter is required
153 The size parameter is required
154 The degrees parameter is required
155 Username missing
156 Password missing
159 Album was already public
162 No album vanity defined
169 Rating should be between 1 and 5
170 User has already rated this media
Registration Errors
200 Required field missing
201 Invalid username format
202 Username unavailable
203 Invalid password format
204 Invalid email address
205 Account already exists for this email address
206 Invalid birthmonth
207 Invalid birthday
208 Invalid birthyear
209 User must be at least 13 years old to register
210 Invalid gender
211 Invalid country
Image Manipulation Errors
300 Source file does not exist
301 Internal system command error
302 Source file is over the file size limit of
303 Malformed source file path
304 We are sorry, this particular image cannot be processed by Photobucket.
305 Cannot increase image size
306 I refuse to resize files with this extension
307 This animation has too many frames to resize
310 Resulting file does not exist
311 Resulting image has no:
312 Resize error:
314 Resulting image is too large
315 Unable to create symlink
Unknown Error
999 An unknown error has occurred

 

 

Published 2-September-09. See developer.photobucket.com for additional resources.