1. The Facebook Ads Collection PipelineΒΆ
In this tutorial, we are covering all steps of a typical Facebook Ads collection. The figure below synthesizes the data collection pipeline.
Each one of the steps of this pipeline is covered by one or more parts of this tutorial:
Step 1: Getting Started with Facebook Marketing API and Access Token and User Id.
Step 2: Basic example of pySocialWatcher and Creating a custom JSON file for a data collection.
Step 3: Basic example of pySocialWatcher for the basics and Repeating a recurrent data collection for data collections that need to be repeated over time.
Step 4: Post-processing the CSV file created by pySocialWatcher
Step 5: Plotting Maps
After all basic steps are learned, the reader will be able to perform her/his own data collection. To make it simpler, we also showcase two complete advanced examples: (1) A complete example: extracting data from the whole world and (2) Ghana and similar peers.