This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate Facebook Political Ads with Google Sheets, Data Studio, and Excel, as well as data warehouse destinations like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and the Supermetrics API.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Facebook Political Ads, you need to:
- Confirm your identity on Facebook
- Register as a Facebook developer and create a Facebook developer application
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Instructions
Before you can authenticate Facebook Political Ads in Google Sheets, you need to install the Supermetrics add-on.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Google Sheets.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Click Add-ons → Supermetrics → Launch to open the sidebar.
- Under Data source, select Facebook Political Ads.
- Click Start.
- A Facebook login page will open. Click Continue with Facebook.
- Enter your credentials and click Log in.
- Click Continue as to authenticate with that user account.
- You should receive a confirmation that the connection has been successfully created.
- Under Query type, select the query type.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Google Sheets.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to Facebook Political Ads and click Try.
- Click Authorize to authorize Supermetrics in Data Studio.
*If you're authenticating the data source for the first time, log in with the Google account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow.* - Click Authorize to log in to Facebook Political Ads.
- A Facebook login page will open. Click Continue with Facebook.
- Enter your credentials and click Log in.
- Click Continue as to authenticate with that user account.
- You should receive a confirmation that the connection has been successfully created.
- Under Select accounts, select the accounts.
- 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.
- Click Connect on the top right-hand side.
- This will open a full list of fields available in this connector. You can skip this list.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report to complete the authentication steps.
Add or remove a user account
- To add a user account, go back to the data source settings and click on the link at the end of the sentence that starts with “To add more/manage user accounts…”
- Click +Add new account to add a new user account.
- Click the Trash icon to remove that specific user account.
- Click Continue to proceed with that user account.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Supermetrics Data Studio.
Before you can authenticate Facebook Political Ads in Excel, you need to
install the Supermetrics add-on.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Facebook Political Ads.
- Click Start.
- A Facebook login page will open. Click Continue with Facebook.
- Enter your credentials and click Log in.
- Click Continue as to authenticate with that user account.
- You should receive a confirmation that the connection has been successfully created.
- Under Query type, select the query type.
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Supermetrics Excel.
Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- Set up BigQuery
- Set up Data warehouse and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- Set up Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate
Learn how to reauthenticate the data source with Supermetrics API, data warehouse and cloud storage integrations:
Troubleshooting
- If you encounter an authentication error such as “authentication failed”, “you need to reauthenticate” or similar, see this guide.
- If you encounter a permission error such as “user permission denied” or similar, follow this guide.