Use this guide to connect your Facebook Ads data to Supermetrics.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our prerequisite and filling guides.
Before you begin
Your Facebook Ads accounts need different types of access to pull different types of data. Make sure your accounts have the right permissions before going ahead.
Your Facebook account needs:
- Employee access with the View performance option enabled, or Ad account analyst access to an ad account.
- If you're using the new Pages experience, your account needs partial access to the linked Facebook account.
For access to Lead data, your account needs:
- Lead manager or Page admin access
Instructions
For Excel users
If your team uses Supermetrics for Excel, you'll see different options for managing and sharing data source connections in that destination. Learn more.
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create query.
- Under Data source, select Facebook Ads.
- Click Start.
- Either log in with a new Facebook account, or click Continue with Facebook to go ahead with the account you're already logged in to.
- Click Done.
- Click OK.
- Select the accounts you want to add to your reporting.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.
Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Data Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to Facebook Ads and click Try.
- Click Authorize.
- If you're connecting Facebook Ads for the first time, log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow.
- Click Authorize.
- Either log in with a new Facebook account, or click Continue with Facebook to go ahead with the account you're already logged in to.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Data Studio.
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Facebook Ads.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Either log in with a new Facebook account, or click Continue with Facebook to go ahead with the account you're already logged in to.
- Click Done.
- Click OK.
- Select the accounts you'd like to add to your reporting.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.