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title: About Apple News API Error Messages
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# About Apple News API Error Messages

## About Apple News API Error Messages

About Apple News API Error Messages Understand the error message format for the Apple News API.

Overview

In responses, errors are represented as an array of information in a common format. The following example shows a Read Channel 400 error.  If the value of `channel_id` in your Read Channel request is not a UUID, you’ll receive an error such as the following:

```other HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:06:52 GMT Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 212

{   "errors": [     {       "code": "INVALID_TYPE",       "keyPath": [         "channel_id"       ],       "value": "not_a_uuid"     }   ] } ```