Facebook Marketing API get total reach of multiple Ad Sets - facebook

I am trying to use the Marketing API to get the summary data for multiple Ad Sets.
I am able to get the data for each Ad Set with the following:
insights/?ids=[**ad_set_ids**]&fields=impressions,clicks,reach,actions,total_actions
I can add up the numbers for each Ad Set to get the total and it is fine except for "reach" because the total of reach doesn't just add up to the total (see image below).
Is there any way to get the summary of data for the ad sets (the last row in the image "Results from 3 Ad Sets")?
I also tried to add the param default_summary=true but it gives me the summary for each ad set instead of the sum of all ad sets.

What you actually need to use the summary field to achieve this. For example you can query your insights at ad account level and then specify level=adset. Then in the filterring, you specify a list of adset.id. And very important you should add summary=["reach"], so that you can get aggregated reach.
Here is an example:
https://graph.facebook.com/act_[acc_id]/insights?limit=5000&level=adset&summary=["reach"]&date_preset=lifetime&action_attribution_windows=["default"]&filtering=[{"field":"adset.id","operator":"IN","value":[adsetID1]"[","[adsetID2]"]}]
And actually you can do this on a campaign node instead of adaccount node too. It may give you better performance.

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Google Places API filter by "user_ratings_total" number or between range

I'm trying to figure out a way to filter Places API results by number of user ratings despite the rating score, I've done something like this but it doesn't makes a difference : https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=24.7588310%2C46.7330426&radius=10500&type=restaurant&user_ratings_total=15000&key=GOOGLE_API_KEY.
My actual goal is to have a result similar to (Example: Show list of restaurants with number or total ratings more than 1000 users and rating score with 4.5)
Your assistance is much appreciated.
I don't think the user_ratings_total is used liked that. It is only a value set for place details request and not a parameter itself. The parameter that usually uses it is the fields parameter for place detail request.
The docs says:
"Place Search requests and Place Details requests do not return the same fields. Place Search requests return a subset of the fields that are returned by Place Details requests."
This means that the reviews and ratings that are being returned on your sample request are just a common result from nearby search. In this case "a subset of the fields".
"To return one or more of these data fields for a place, make a Place Details request, pass a place ID, and specify which fields to return."
ref: Place Data Fields docs
A Place Details request looks like this: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/output?parameters
And fields parameter can be added in this format: fields=user_ratings_total
In summary, user_ratings_total is not used to filter Nearby Search result, but it is used to get more total ratings of a user in a certain Place/POI using Place Details request.
I tried looking through the docs and I can't seem to find this feature on the Places API. So what you can do for now if your really want this feature, is to file a Feature Request on Google Issue Tracker and let it be reviewed by Google engineers if it is possible to be implemented on the API.

Azure AD Graph group member oData result limitations

Following is the url to get the members of a group
baseUrl/groups/{groupId}/members?$select=objectId,signInNames,surname,givenName
So how many number of records will be return with this request?
does it return all the members of group or does it return limited number of record and next link for the next records?
It depends on how many members are in your group.
Different APIs might have different default and maximum page sizes.
There should be a limited number(which is not exposed) for /members endpoint. If the number of members exceeds this limit, a #odata.nextLink will be returned for accessing more data.
You can specify the page size by using $top query parameter. See details here.

REST API best practices: ignoring filter when empty

In the scenario of a users API (/api/users) with a property of team_id, I want to set up an endpoint that allows me to get users with specific team IDs, i.e. /api/users?team_ids=1&team_ids=2&team_ids=3.
My question is, what if I want to ignore this filter?
For instance, if there's a multiselect dropdown in the UI and the user de-selects all team_ids, the expected result would be nothing as they have selected zero teams, and all users are in a team. From an API perspective however, I think it would be reasonable to expect that /api/users would return all users.
You can simply make that parameter required then, so if it doesn't exist the response is an empty array. Or you can limit the amount of users returned

Possible to specify date_preset with insights edge in Facebook Ads API?

For the Marketing API, I know that I'm able to make one call to retrieve all of the adsets from a certain account along with their insights, but am I able to specify the date_preset for the insights edge in that same call?
For example, the following gives me lifetime insights stats:
/v2.4/{accountID}/adcampaigns?fields=insights
To be clear - I know this is possible to retrieve by making separate calls for each adset id (where I know I can specify the date_preset); instead, I'd like to do this via the call where I get a long list of the ad sets plus their insights details in one go.
Yes this is possible using query expansion, however you probably should not do it in this anyway.
Using query expansion results in multiple requests being executed in one HTTP call, in this case one to get all the adcampaigns, and then N requests where N is the number of adcampaigns returned. This will in turn affect your rate limiting.
The most efficient way to request all insights for all adcampaigns (ad sets) is instead to request them at the account level, specifying aggregation level:
/v2.4/act_{ADACCOUNT_ID}/insights?date_preset=last_7_days&level=campaign
This requires just 1 request, or the number of requests to retrieve the total number of pages.
If you really want to achieve this with query expansion, you can do the following for example:
/v2.4/act_{ADACCOUNT_ID}/adcampaigns?fields=insights.date_preset(last_30_days).time_increment(all_days)
You can see the parameters to insights that would normally be query parameters of the form param_name=param_value are now in the form of param_name(param_value).
To specify the date_preset , here is the correct format . Its important to use insights as edge to get the date_preset filtering .
/v2.10/act_{ADACCOUNT_ID}/insights?fields=impressions,clicks,ctr,unique_clicks,unique_ctr,spend,cpc&date_preset=last_3d
The above one is tested with latest Graph Api version(2.10) as of now . FOr more info related to the date_preset values refer to there api docs .
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/insights/parameters

Google Analytics API TotalEvents query

I'm trying to get a total count for a give event,however I get a number much bigger(10-20 times bigger), than I see on the GA website, what am I doing wrong? (api v3)
here is the segment
metric:
ga:totalEvents
segment:
dynamic::ga:eventCategory==mycategory;ga:eventAction==myaction;ga:eventLabel==mylabel
note that I get wrong results with the query explorer as well.
You are using a segment instead of a filter.
Segments are session based so it will include all events in a session if it matches you specification. So essentially if I triggered the event you want plus other events they will all be included in the total events field.
What you need to do Is remove the segment and add a filter, the filter will include only the data you request.
Hope that helps