Facebook Pages

Facebook Pages allows businesses to interact with customer on the Facebook social media platform. You can use Facebook Pages as a data source when landing or replicating data.

For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.
For more information about Lite connectors, see Classifications for SaaS application connectors.
Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

Change data capture (CDC)
Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables
Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

Change data capture (CDC)
Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Facebook Pages data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

Create an app

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/.
Click Create an app, select app type Business, and click Continue.
Set App Display Name to Qlik.
Set the app purpose appropriately for your use case.
Set Do you have a Business Manager account to the business manager account that you want to use.
Click Create App.

Generate an access token:

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer.
Set Facebook App to Qlik.
Click Generate Access Token.
Click Add a Permission, and select the following:

pages_read_engagement

pages_show_list

read_insights
Click Generate Access Token and follow the instructions to authorize the app.

Get App ID and App Secret

Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
On the top left of the screen under Dashboard, click Settings.
Click Basic.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

Fill in the required connection properties.
Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.
Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.
Click Create.

Connection settings
Setting	Description
Data gateway	Select a Data Movement gateway if required by your use case. Information note This field is not available with the Qlik Talend Cloud Starter subscription, as it does not support Data Movement gateway. If you have another subscription tier and do not want to use Data Movement gateway, select None. For information on the benefits of Data Movement gateway and use cases that require it, see Qlik Data Gateway - Data Movement.
Access Token	The access token you have generated for your app.
App ID	The ID of your Qlik app on Facebook.
App Secret	The secret associated with your Qlik app on Facebook.
Page Fields	Comma separated list of the required fields for the Pages dataset. You can use up to a maximum of 47 fields from the following list: about, ad_campaign, affiliation, app_id, artists_we_like, attire, awards, band_interests, band_members, best_page, bio, birthday, booking_agent, built, business, can_checkin, can_post, category, category_list, checkins, company_overview, connected_instagram_account, connected_page_backed_instagram_account, contact_address, copyright_attribution_insights, copyright_whitelisted_ig_partners, country_page_likes, cover, culinary_team, current_location, delivery_and_pickup_option_info, description, description_html, differently_open_offerings, directed_by, display_subtext, displayed_message_response_time, emails, engagement, fan_count, featured_video, features, followers_count, food_styles, founded, general_info, general_manager, genre, global_brand_page_name, global_brand_root_id, has_added_app, has_transitioned_to_new_page_experience, has_whatsapp_business_number, has_whatsapp_enterprise_number_using_cloud_api, has_whatsapp_number, hometown, hours, impressum, influences, instagram_business_account, is_always_open, is_chain, is_community_page, is_eligible_for_branded_content, is_messenger_bot_get_started_enabled, is_messenger_platform_bot, is_owned, is_permanently_closed, is_published, is_unclaimed, leadgen_tos_accepted, leadgen_tos_accepting_user, link, location, members, merchant_review_status, messaging_feature_status, messenger_ads_default_icebreakers, messenger_ads_default_page_welcome_message, messenger_ads_default_quick_replies, messenger_ads_quick_replies_type, mission, mpg, name, name_with_location_descriptor, network, new_like_count, offer_eligible, overall_star_rating, page_token, parking, payment_options, personal_info, personal_interests, pharma_safety_info, phone, pickup_options, place_type, plot_outline, preferred_audience, press_contact, price_range, privacy_info_url, produced_by, products, promotion_eligible, promotion_ineligible_reason, public_transit, rating_count, recipient, record_label, release_date, restaurant_services, restaurant_specialties, schedule, screenplay_by, season, single_line_address, starring, start_info, store_code, store_location_descriptor, store_number, studio, supports_donate_button_in_live_video, talking_about_count, temporary_status, differently_open, unread_message_count, unread_notif_count, unseen_message_count, username, verification_status, voip_info, website, were_here_count, whatsapp_number, written_by

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