Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads is the advertising platform of the social network Facebook. You can use Facebook Ads as a data source when landing or replicating data.

You can leave all custom report fields empty to use pre-built reports. Fill in the custom report fields, levels, and breakdowns fields to use user-defined reports.

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 Ads 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, click Manage Business Integrations, 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, then click Events Groups Pages and select ads_read.
Click Generate Access Token and follow the instructions to authorize the app.

Get App ID and App Secret

Go to Marketing API and click Set Up.
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.
Ad Account ID	To get your Ad Account ID, go to Find your Facebook ad account ID number and follow the instructios.
App Secret	The secret associated with your Qlik app on Facebook.
Start Date	Start date for the reporting period you require in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
Custom Report One Fields	Fields for custom report one. For more information, see Insights API. Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report One Levels	Levels for custom report one. The following levels are possible to use: ad, adset, campaign, account Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report One Breakdowns	Breakdowns for custom report one. The following breakdowns are possible to use: ad_format_asset, age, app_id, body_asset, call_to_action_asset, coarse_conversion_value, country, description_asset, fidelity_type, gender, hsid, image_asset, impression_device, is_conversion_id_modeled, link_url_asset, postback_sequence_index, product_id, redownload, region, skan_campaign_id, skan_conversion_id, skan_version, title_asset, video_asset, dma, frequency_value, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_advertiser_time_zone, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_audience_time_zone, mmm, place_page_id, publisher_platform, platform_position, device_platform, standard_event_content_type, marketing_messages_btn_name Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Two Fields	Fields for custom report two. For more information, see Insights API. Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Two Levels	Levels for custom report two. The following levels are possible to use: ad, adset, campaign, account Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Two Breakdowns	Breakdowns for custom report two. The following breakdowns are possible to use: ad_format_asset, age, app_id, body_asset, call_to_action_asset, coarse_conversion_value, country, description_asset, fidelity_type, gender, hsid, image_asset, impression_device, is_conversion_id_modeled, link_url_asset, postback_sequence_index, product_id, redownload, region, skan_campaign_id, skan_conversion_id, skan_version, title_asset, video_asset, dma, frequency_value, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_advertiser_time_zone, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_audience_time_zone, mmm, place_page_id, publisher_platform, platform_position, device_platform, standard_event_content_type, marketing_messages_btn_name Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Three Fields	Fields for custom report three. For more information, see Insights API. Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Three Levels	Levels for custom report three. The following levels are possible to use: ad, adset, campaign, account Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Three Breakdowns	Breakdowns for custom report three. The following breakdowns are possible to use: ad_format_asset, age, app_id, body_asset, call_to_action_asset, coarse_conversion_value, country, description_asset, fidelity_type, gender, hsid, image_asset, impression_device, is_conversion_id_modeled, link_url_asset, postback_sequence_index, product_id, redownload, region, skan_campaign_id, skan_conversion_id, skan_version, title_asset, video_asset, dma, frequency_value, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_advertiser_time_zone, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_audience_time_zone, mmm, place_page_id, publisher_platform, platform_position, device_platform, standard_event_content_type, marketing_messages_btn_name Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Four Fields	Fields for custom report four. For more information, see Insights API. Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Four Levels	Levels for custom report four. The following levels are possible to use: ad, adset, campaign, account Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Four Breakdowns	Breakdowns for custom report four. The following breakdowns are possible to use: ad_format_asset, age, app_id, body_asset, call_to_action_asset, coarse_conversion_value, country, description_asset, fidelity_type, gender, hsid, image_asset, impression_device, is_conversion_id_modeled, link_url_asset, postback_sequence_index, product_id, redownload, region, skan_campaign_id, skan_conversion_id, skan_version, title_asset, video_asset, dma, frequency_value, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_advertiser_time_zone, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_audience_time_zone, mmm, place_page_id, publisher_platform, platform_position, device_platform, standard_event_content_type, marketing_messages_btn_name Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Five Fields	Fields for custom report five. For more information, see Insights API. Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Five Levels	Levels for custom report five. The following levels are possible to use: ad, adset, campaign, account Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.
Custom Report Five Breakdowns	Breakdowns for custom report five. The following breakdowns are possible to use: ad_format_asset, age, app_id, body_asset, call_to_action_asset, coarse_conversion_value, country, description_asset, fidelity_type, gender, hsid, image_asset, impression_device, is_conversion_id_modeled, link_url_asset, postback_sequence_index, product_id, redownload, region, skan_campaign_id, skan_conversion_id, skan_version, title_asset, video_asset, dma, frequency_value, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_advertiser_time_zone, hourly_stats_aggregated_by_audience_time_zone, mmm, place_page_id, publisher_platform, platform_position, device_platform, standard_event_content_type, marketing_messages_btn_name Information noteThis field is optional, leave it empty to use pre-defined reports.

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