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Connector Improvement: Support Facebook Page Ads Posts

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Matthew Clemente User

Currently, only published posts are returned from the Facebook Pages Connector. That is, it's using the /published_posts endpoint.

For Pages that advertise, this leaves out a large number of posts - the Ads Posts, which are available at the /ads_posts endpoint. Note that this endpoint also enables the retrieval of "dark posts", using the include_inline_create flag.

Not including these posts rendered the connector useless for us, as it does not actually provide an accurate picture of our Page's posts.

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    Drew Fivetranner

    Hi Matthew, Drew from the product team here.

    Thanks for calling this out. I need to do some research related to this request and how we might be able to support it in the Facebook Pages connector.

    Out of curiosity, would Ads Posts not be covered in the Facebook Ads? Is that due to the Facebook Ads connector only covering content created in Facebook Ads Manager? 

  • Matthew Clemente User

    Drew Sorry - I got pulled away from this and failed to respond!

    I believe you nailed it - Posts not created within the Ads manager can still be used for ads, but they don't show up with the Ads connector.

    We ended up using the FB API directly, and taking the effective_object_story_id from the Creatives to query the Post from FB, here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v12.0/post, which got the information we were looking for.