meta ad library PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Question

I am running this command on my terminal :

C:\Ad-Library-API-Script-Repository-main\python> py fb_ads_library_api_cli.py -t (token) -f "id,page_id,page_name,ad_creative_bodies,spend,demographic_distribution,bylines,ad_delivery_start_time" -c "CA" -s "climate" --after-date "2024年05月01日" save_to_csv file.csv

And I get the following error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Ad-Library-API-Script-Repository-main\python\fb_ads_library_api_cli.py", line 147, in
main()
File "C:\Ad-Library-API-Script-Repository-main\python\fb_ads_library_api_cli.py", line 134, in main
save_to_csv(
File "C:\Ad-Library-API-Script-Repository-main\python\fb_ads_library_api_operators.py", line 96, in save_to_csv
with open(output_file, "w") as csvfile:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied.

Does anyone have a solution ? i'm not sure I understand how the Permission system works in the Graph Api.

I have tried adding "encoding="utf-8" in the fb_ads_library_api_operators file to fix the encoding issue, but it didn't work (i am able to get one dataset then i get the same error all over again)

• ewokx: Please include a minimal reproducible example. Is it trying to save file.csv to the same directory as your script? Do you have RW permissions on it?
• C3roe: "i'm not sure I understand how the Permission system works in the Graph Api." PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied. has nothing to do with the Graph API, that is a python error relating to the file system operation it tries to perform on your system.
• noradioactive: Yes it is trying to save file.csv to the same directory as the script. the script i'm using is a script i downloaded on my computer from here github.com/facebookresearch/…