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dkbollig
New Member
10 years ago

Pulling Data from Facebook Ad Campaigns

Hey There!   Is is possible to pull data from Facebook's Ad Services? Example running a campaign and being able to pull the data it's collecting on engagement?   Thanks Derek
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hugoberry
Responsive Resident
8 years ago

I've build a custom data connector for Facebook Ads 

 

You can just copy the mez file from https://github.com/Hugoberry/FacebookAds/tree/master/build into your 

 [My Documents]\Microsoft Power BI Desktop\Custom Connectors directory

and enable custom connectors in Power BI.

 

The FacebookAds connector now supports two functions. The initial functionality FacebookAds.Campaigns() will return you the insights for your campaigns.

 

The Second function FacebookAds.API(uri,params) is more of a credentials wrapper for the enitre MarketingAPI. You can tailor your requests as you want with it.

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stodds
New Member
8 years ago

Hey...I just tried using this and got this error (replaced token with xxxxxxx).

 

DataSource.Error: Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.11/act_59096518/campaigns?access_token=xxxxxxx&fields=name' (400): Bad Request
Details:
    DataSourceKind=FacebookAds
    DataSourcePath=FacebookAds
    Url=https://graph.facebook.com/v2.11/act_59096518/campaigns?access_token=xxxxx&fields=name

 

Let me know if I'm missing something