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Facebook Pages

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The Facebook Pages API utilized by this connector has been deprecated. You will not be able to make a successful connection. If you would like to make a community contribution or track API upgrade status, visit: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/25515.

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

  1. Generate Long-Lived User Access Token.
  2. 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:

Supported Streams

Data type map

Integration TypeAirbyte TypeNotes
stringstring
numbernumber
arrayarray
objectobject

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.

Reference

Config fields reference

Field
Type
Property name
string
access_token
string
page_id

Changelog

VersionDatePull RequestSubject
1.0.02024-03-1436015Upgrade Facebook API to v19.0
0.3.02023-06-2627728License Update: Elv2
0.2.52023-04-1326939Add advancedAuth to the connector spec
0.2.42023-04-1325143Update insight metrics request params
0.2.32023-02-2323395Parse datetime to rfc3339
0.2.22023-02-1022804Retry 500 errors
0.2.12022-12-2920925Fix tests; modify expected records
0.2.02022-11-2419788Migrate lo low-code; Beta certification; Upgrade Facebook API to v.15
0.1.62021-12-229032Remove deprecated field live_encoders from Page stream
0.1.52021-11-268267updated all empty objects in schemas for Page and Post streams
0.1.42021-11-26Remove unsupported insights_export field from Pages request
0.1.32021-10-287440Generate Page token from config access token
0.1.22021-10-187128Upgrade Facebook API to v.12
0.1.12021-09-306438Annotate Oauth2 flow initialization parameters in connector specification
0.1.02021-09-015158Initial Release