Facebook Ads connector for Amazon AppFlow - Amazon AppFlow
Facebook Ads supportBefore you beginConnecting to the Marketing APITransferring data from the Marketing APISupported objectsSupported destinations

Facebook Ads connector for Amazon AppFlow

You can use the Facebook Ads connector in Amazon AppFlow to transfer data about the ads that you run with the Facebook Marketing API. The Marketing API is a series of Graph API endpoints that create and manage ads on Facebook and Instagram. After you connect Amazon AppFlow to your Facebook developer account, you can transfer data about your ads, campaigns, budgets, and more.

Facebook Ads support

The following list summarizes how Amazon AppFlow supports the Facebook Marketing API through the Facebook Ads connector.

Supported as a data source?

Yes. You can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data about your Facebook ads from the Marketing API.

Supported as a data destination?

No. You can't use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data to the Marketing API or your Facebook developer account.

Supported versions

Amazon AppFlow supports the following versions of the Marketing API:

  • v16.0

  • v15.0

  • v14.0

For more information about Marketing API versions, see Changelog in the Meta for Developers documentation.

Before you begin

To use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from the Marketing API to supported destinations, you'll need to meet these requirements:

  • You have a Meta for Developers account.

  • Your account contains an app with its type set to Business. For information about creating an app, see Create an App in the Meta for Developers App Development documentation.

  • Your Meta for Developers app includes the Facebook Login product, which you've configured to meet the following additional requirements:

    • Client OAuth login is enabled

    • Web OAuth login is enabled

    • One or more OAuth redirect URIs are present for Amazon AppFlow. Each of these URIs has the following form:

      https://region.console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/oauth

      In this URI, region is the code for the AWS Region where you use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from the Marketing API. For example, if you use Amazon AppFlow in the US East (N. Virginia) region, the URI is https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/oauth.

      For the AWS Regions that Amazon AppFlow supports, see Amazon AppFlow endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference.

    For more information about Facebook Login, see Facebook Login in the Meta For Developers documentation.

  • Your Meta for Developers app includes the Marketing API product, which you use to manage the ads that Amazon AppFlow transfers data about.

Connecting Amazon AppFlow to the Facebook Marketing API

To connect Amazon AppFlow to data about your Facebook ads, create an Amazon AppFlow connection where you provide details about your Meta for Developers app. If you haven't yet configured your app for Amazon AppFlow integration, see Before you begin.

To connect to Facebook Ads

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon AppFlow console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Connections.

  3. On the Manage connections page, for Connectors, choose Facebook Ads.

  4. Choose Create connection.

  5. In the Connect to Facebook Ads window, enter the following information:

    • Custom authorization code URL – Specify the Marketing API version that you use in your Facebook developer app to complete the URL shown in the console:

      https://www.facebook.com/version/dialog/oauth

      For example, if you use v14.0, the URL is https://www.facebook.com/v14.0/dialog/oauth.

      For the Marketing API versions that Amazon AppFlow supports, see Facebook Ads support.

    • Client ID – The App ID that's assigned to your Meta for Developers app.

    • Client secret – The App secret that's assigned to your Meta for Developers app.

    • Facebook Instance URL – Choose https://graph.facebook.com.

    • Facebook API version – Choose the Marketing API version that you use. This version must match the one that you specified for Custom authorization code URL.

  6. Optionally, under Data encryption, choose Customize encryption settings (advanced) if you want to encrypt your data with a customer managed key in the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

    By default, Amazon AppFlow encrypts your data with a KMS key that AWS creates, uses, and manages for you. Choose this option if you want to encrypt your data with your own KMS key instead.

    Amazon AppFlow always encrypts your data during transit and at rest. For more information, see Data protection in Amazon AppFlow.

    If you want to use a KMS key from the current AWS account, select this key under Choose an AWS KMS key. If you want to use a KMS key from a different AWS account, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for that key.

  7. For Connection name, enter a name for your connection.

  8. Choose Connect.

On the Manage connections page, your new connection appears in the Connections table. When you create a flow that uses Facebook Ads as the data source, you can select this connection.

Transferring data from the Facebook Marketing API with a flow

To transfer data about your Facebook ads from the Marketing API, create an Amazon AppFlow flow, and choose Facebook Ads as the data source. For the steps to create a flow, see Creating flows in Amazon AppFlow.

When you configure the flow, choose which data object you want to transfer. For most Facebook Ads objects, you must choose two values: one for Choose Facebook Ads object, and another for Choose Facebook Ads subobject. The subobject is an individual instance of the object. For example, if the object that you choose is Campaigns, then the subobject is the specific campaign to transfer data from. For the objects that Amazon AppFlow supports for Facebook Ads, see Supported objects.

Also choose the destination where you want to transfer the data object that you selected. For information on how to configure your destination, see Supported destinations.

Supported objects

When you create a flow that uses Facebook Ads as the data source, you can transfer any of the following data objects:

  • Account

  • Campaigns

  • Ad Sets

  • Campaign Budget

  • Ads

  • Ad Creatives

For more information about these objects and the data that they contain, see Ad Campaign Structure in the Meta for Developers Marketing API documentation.

Supported destinations

When you create a flow that uses Facebook Ads as the data source, you can set the destination to any of the following connectors: