Use this guide to connect your Facebook Insights 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
To connect Supermetrics to Facebook Insights, you need Administrator access to the Pages you want to pull data from. If you're connected with Business Manager, you'll need at least Page editor access to those Pages.
Visit the Facebook help center to learn more about adding permissions to a Page and adding users to a Page in Business Manager.
If you're using the new Pages experience, your account needs Partial access to the linked Page.
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 Insights.
- 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 Insights and click Try.
- Click Authorize.
- If you're connecting Facebook Insights 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 Insights.
- 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.