TikTok Ads

TikTok Ads is used by brands and individual creators by paying to share sponsored content on TikTok’s platform to reach a bigger and/or more specific audience.

TikTok Ads integration replicates data using the TikTok Ads API (v1.3).

A high-level look at this connector, including useful links, and supported features.

Feature/Capability	Support details
Supported Qlik Talend Data Integration projects	Replication projects only. Data pipeline projects are not supported.
Target update methods	Replication tasks: Apply changes Store changes Landing data in a data lake tasks: Change data capture (CDC)
Managing metadata	Manual metadata generation is not required.
Schema evolution	Only the Change column data type operation is supported.
Replication of LOB columns (NCLOB, CLOB, and BLOB)	Not supported.
Scheduled CDC	Required. This is how the target is kept up-to-date with changes to the source. For replication tasks, see Scheduling tasks For lake landing tasks, see Scheduling CDC for lake landing tasks
Notifications	Partially supported Setting notifications for changes in operation
Monitoring	CDC-only, as full load is not relevant for this connector. Monitoring an individual data task
Automatic denesting of JSON column payloads	Not supported. JSON column payloads in source datasets are not denested automatically on the target.

Preparing for authentication

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

Make sure that the account you use has read access to the tables you want to fetch.

To generate your App ID and Secret:

Log into your TikTok for Developers account.
Click your profile icon in the navigation bar.
Click Manage apps and select the relevant application.
Copy the App ID and Secret that are generated, to use in the connection settings.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

You may be asked to log in to the source application.

A window is displayed with an authentication code.
Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.
Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

When status is Verified, the authentication is verified.
Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.
Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

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.
Start Date	Enter the date, in the format `MM/DD/YYYY`, from which the data must be replicated from your source to your target.
Include data from deleted campaigns, ads, and adgroups	Select the checkbox if needed.
Accounts	Enter the account names separated by a comma.
App ID	ID of the app.
Secret	Secret of the app.

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