Account Adsets
This pipeline provides a single, consistent interface to retrieve statistics about Ads, Ad Sets, and Campaigns. An ad set is a group of ads that share the same daily or lifetime budget, schedule, bid type, bid info, and targeting data. Ad sets enable you to group ads according to your criteria, and you can retrieve the ad-related statistics that apply to a set.
You can read more about this end-point on the facebook marketing API documentation page here
Configuring the Credentials
Select the account credentials which has access to relevant Facebook Ads data from the dropdown menu & Click Next
Data Pipelines Details
- Data Pipeline
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Select Account Adsets from the dropdown
- Account
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Select one or more accounts from the drop-down
All accounts which your credentials have access to should be available here. If they are not, please check the credentials selected / configured by you. While you can add multiple accounts, the table size may become too large and so it is advisable to add one account per pipeline and use Union queries in the data warehouse to join the data for consumption |
- Dimensions
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Select the dimensions you would like to fetch from the Facebook Ads platform. You can click on View Schema anytime to see the schema of the table being created.
Each of the selected dimension will create one or more columns in the database table in the destination warehouse. |
For a complete list of all the available dimensions along with their explanation refer this link.
Setting Parameters
Parameter | Description | Values |
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Insert Mode |
Required Specifies the manner in which data will get updated in the data warehouse : UPSERT will insert only new records or records with changes, APPEND will insert all fetched data at the end, REPLACE will drop the existing table and recreate a fresh one on each run. |
{Upsert, Append, Replace} Default Value: Upsert |
Filtering
Click on + Add New for setting up a new filter
In order to get details for objects which are in other states like paused or deleted etc we need to specify filters. These are needed since by default the facebook will return data only for those ads/campaigns etc which are enabled. |
Available filters are as under:-
Filter | Description | Values |
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Adset Effective Status |
Optional Select all the types of effective status types by which you wish to filter your adset data. Recommended to select all values. |
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Adset Bid Strategy |
Optional Select all the types of bidding strategy types by which you wish to filter your adset data. Recommended to select all values. |
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Adset Billing Event |
Optional Select all the types of billing event types by which you wish to filter your adset data. Recommended to select all values. |
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Adset Optimization Goal |
Optional Select all the types of optimization goal types by which you wish to filter your adset data. Recommended to select all values. |
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Ad Set Delivery Info |
Optional Select all the types by which you wish to filter your adset data. Recommended to select all values. |
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Datapipeline Scheduling
Scheduling specifies the frequency with which data will get updated in the data warehouse. You can choose between Manual Run, Normal Scheduling or Advance Scheduling.
- Manual Run
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If scheduling is not required, you can use the toggle to run the pipeline manually.
- Normal Scheduling
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Use the dropdown to select an interval-based hourly, monthly, weekly, or daily frequency.
- Advance Scheduling
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Set schedules fine-grained at the level of Months, Days, Hours, and Minutes.
Detailed explanation on scheduling of pipelines can be found here
Dataset & Name
- Dataset Name
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Key in the Dataset Name(also serves as the table name in your data warehouse).Keep in mind, that the name should be unique across the account and the data source. Special characters (except underscore _) and blank spaces are not allowed. It is best to follow a consistent naming scheme for future search to locate the tables.
- Dataset Description
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Enter a short description (optional) describing the dataset being fetched by this particular pipeline.
- Notifications
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Choose the events for which you’d like to be notified: whether "ERROR ONLY" or "ERROR AND SUCCESS".
Once you have finished click on Finish to save it. Read more about naming and saving your pipelines including the option to save them as templates here
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