Facebook Pages

This page contains the setup guide and reference information for the Facebook Pages source connector.

Prerequisites

To set up the Facebook Pages source connector with Airbyte, you'll need to create your Facebook Application and use both long-lived Page access token and Facebook Page ID.

note

The Facebook Pages souce connector is currently only compatible with v15 of the Facebook Graph API.

Setup guide

Step 1: Set up Facebook Pages

1. Create Facebook Developer Account. Follow instruction to create one.
2. Create Facebook App. Choose "Company" as the purpose of the app. Fill out the remaining fields to create your app, then follow along the "Connect a User Page" section.
3. Connect a User Page. Choose your app at Meta App field. Choose your Page at User or Page field. Add next permission:
   • pages_read_engagement
   • pages_read_user_content
   • pages_show_list
   • read_insights
4. Click Generate Access Token and follow instructions.

After all the steps, it should look something like this

5. Generate Long-Lived User Access Token.
6. Generate Long-Lived Page Token.

Step 2: Set up the Facebook Pages connector in Airbyte

For Airbyte Cloud:

1. Log into your Airbyte Cloud account.
2. In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click + New source.
3. On the Set up the source page, enter the name for the Facebook Pages connector and select Facebook Pages from the Source type dropdown.
4. Fill in Page Access Token with Long-Lived Page Token
5. Fill in Page ID (if you have a page URL such as https://www.facebook.com/Test-1111111111, the ID would beTest-1111111111)

For Airbyte OSS:

1. Navigate to the Airbyte Open Source dashboard.
2. Set the name for your source.
3. On the Set up the source page, enter the name for the Facebook Pages connector and select Facebook Pages from the Source type dropdown.
4. Fill in Page Access Token with Long-Lived Page Token
5. Fill in Page ID (if you have a page URL such as https://www.facebook.com/Test-1111111111, the ID would beTest-1111111111)

Supported sync modes

The Facebook Pages source connector supports the following sync modes:

• Full Refresh - Overwrite
• Full Refresh - Append

Supported Streams

• Page
• Post
• Page Insights
• Post Insights

Data type map

Integration Type	Airbyte Type	Notes
string	string
number	number
array	array
object	object

Performance considerations

Facebook heavily throttles API tokens generated from Facebook Apps by default, making it infeasible to use such a token for syncs with Airbyte. To be able to use this connector without your syncs taking days due to rate limiting follow the instructions in the Setup Guide below to access better rate limits.

See Facebook's documentation on rate limiting for more information on requesting a quota upgrade.

Changelog

Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
0.3.0	2023-06-26	27728	License Update: Elv2
0.2.5	2023-04-13	26939	Add advancedAuth to the connector spec
0.2.4	2023-04-13	25143	Update insight metrics request params
0.2.3	2023-02-23	23395	Parse datetime to rfc3339
0.2.2	2023-02-10	22804	Retry 500 errors
0.2.1	2022-12-29	20925	Fix tests; modify expected records
0.2.0	2022-11-24	19788	Migrate lo low-code; Beta certification; Upgrade Facebook API to v.15
0.1.6	2021-12-22	9032	Remove deprecated field live_encoders from Page stream
0.1.5	2021-11-26	8267	updated all empty objects in schemas for Page and Post streams
0.1.4	2021-11-26		Remove unsupported insights_export field from Pages request
0.1.3	2021-10-28	7440	Generate Page token from config access token
0.1.2	2021-10-18	7128	Upgrade Facebook API to v.12
0.1.1	2021-09-30	6438	Annotate Oauth2 flow initialization parameters in connector specification
0.1.0	2021-09-01	5158	Initial Release