Is there any way to find out if a business/domain is running any ADS on facebook ?
Either it might be using facebook ads API or any other API which can provide this data?
I have looked into the matter in the past and the short answer is no.
Some advertisers want to maintain anonymity and therefore Facebook would never disclose that kind of information. Advertising is where all there money is coming from!
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my team uses many Facebook Business Manager to manage multiple Ad Accounts. Usually our employees will check the Amount Spent and Bill manually in Facebook sites. But now the number of ad accounts increases, I would like to automate the tasks: syncing data from Facebook to our own database (for high manager to view).
I tried with my own Facebook Account (by my own facebook App), I can get the Amount Spent already. My questions are:
What is the API to get Amount Billed, I searched around but not yet found
Because the number of ad accounts is big, what will be the good approach? (I am thinking of create a sole app and let the advertisers authorize it, And use the token to call Graph API; 2nd way is: each facebook user create their own app, this will not need Facebook to approve the app).
Sorry for my bad English, I am really new to Facebook API, please help. Thank you very much.
You can get Budget,Spend... with Ad Set (lifetime_budget,daily_budget)
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/reference/ad-campaign#fields
and get report Cpc,cpm... with Insight
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/reference/ad-campaign-group/insights/#fields
/business.facebook.com/ads/manager/billing/transactions/
Thats the url id like to pull data from. I looked at all the API's, but none of them seem to offer up this data.
Try this: https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9/{business_id}/business_invoices
YES YOU CAN USIG FACEBOOK MARKETING API Marketing APIs are a collection of Graph API endpoints that can be used to help you advertise on Facebook. To get started with advertising on Facebook, we recommend you learn about Facebook's Ad Campaign Structure, to understand the objects you're working with and how they relate to each other.
CHECK THIS OUT
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-apis/
I have a task to integrate facebook marketing api with my web application.
The ultimate aim of my web application is provide a capability for my clients to manage ads without login in facebook. So, I'm asking a question: is it possible to create the only one account for all my clients and manage ads by this account? And if I can, does it right way to use fb marketing api?
Anyway, i would appreciate if someone could give me advice about which approach i should use in my case to manage ads without any client-side authorization.
Yes, you can create ad accounts and run ads on Facebook for any number of clients for nearly any purpose* and not require them to log into Facebook. You can create ad campaigns and creative elements (graphics and links relevant to the client's products) using the Facebook Marketing API in your own ad accounts.
If you haven't seen it already, review the Facebook Marketing API getting started documentation and videos https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-apis
*You're still held to FB terms of service so be sure to review requirements for allowed ad content.
I'm trying to find a source for Facebook Application statistics. I'm most interested in getting a comprehensive list of the applications in the system, and how many monthly active users each app has. I know this information is available on each application's page, but aside from crawling Facebook, is this information available somewhere, or via Facebook's API?
Facebook Applications Leaderboard http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/leaderboard/
Check facebook insights
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/{urAppIdHere}/insights
I'm a graduate student whose research is complex network. I am working on a project that involves analyzing connections between Facebook users. Is it possible to write a crawler for Facebook based on friendship information?
I looked around but couldn't find any things useful so far. It seems Facebook isn't fond of such activity. Can I rely on the Facebook API?
Update (Jan-08-2010): Thank you very much for the responses. I guess I probably need to contact Facebook directly then. Cheers
Update (Feb-16-2011): A new book, "Mining the social web", just came out. In it, there is a chapter devoted entirely for mining Facebook using Python. Cheers.
You can't rely on the Facebook API unfortunately. To get friend information, you need to use something like friends.get(). However, any Facebook API method that returns user information like this requires that you have an active session key from that user, and generally the way you get an active session key is to have the user come to your Facebook application or page.
In summary, the information you are talking about is essentially private. You can't pick a person from Facebook, get their friends, and get those friend's friends, and so on. To me this is a good thing for privacy, but of course it prevents arbitrary analysis.
I'd throw out the idea of writing a quick and dirty application with some user appeal that you could use for research. If a group like S**t My Dad Says (funny, not really safe for work) can get 120,000 users in a couple of months, you could probably plead your case with a small research application and get a reasonable amount of users.
The problem is that facebook friendship information is typically private and only accessible to friends. It should be a lot easier to build this network on Twitter, if this is an option for you.
As others have stated, this is typically private information. If, however, Facebook per se isn't a requirement, you could use Google's Social API. A snippet from the Google Social Graph API page: "With the Social Graph API, developers can now utilize public connections their users have already created in other web services. It makes information about public connections between people easily available and useful."
Here's an article on using it in Ruby:
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/google-social-graph-api-ruby-rails#
This lifecode post provide a basic python script to scrape your facebook friends contact info.
The output of this script, is the profile ID, profile pame, profile URL, e-mail address and mobile/phone number (if provided by friend).
WARNING: This is against Facebook TOS. Use at your own risk.
Info provided for educational and research purposes
http://ruel.me/blog/2010/11/26/scrape-your-facebook-friends-contact-info-with-python/
You can use http://www.facebook.com/directory/ to get the public listed people.