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To authorize this service, use OAuth 2.0 to share specific data with an application while keeping usernames, passwords, and other information private.

1. On the Authorizers page, click on Authorize New Service and select your service.
2. Follow the prompts to grant Dataddo the necessary permissions to access and retrieve your data.
3. [Optional] Once your authorizer is created, click on it to change the label for easier identification.

Ensure that the account you're granting access to holds at least admin-level permissions.

1. On the Sources page, click on the Create Source button and select the connector from the list.
2. From the drop-down menu, choose your account.
   Didn't find your account?

   Click on Add new Account at the bottom of the drop-down and follow the on-screen prompts. You can also go to the Authorizers tab and click on Add New Service.

3. Name your data source and select your metrics and attributes.
4. [Optional] Configure your advanced settings (for more information please refer to the section on Advanced Settings). If you are unsure about how to proceed, we recommend skipping this step.
5. Configure your snapshotting preferences. Choose your sync frequency or the exact synchronization time under Show advanced settings.
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   If you need to load historical data, please refer to the Data Backfilling article.

6. Preview your data by clicking on the Test Data button in the top right corner. You can adjust the date range for a more specific time frame.
7. Click on Save and congratulations, your new data source is ready!

Data Preview Unavailable

If there is no data preview after clicking on Test Data, there might be a problem with your source configuration. The most common causes are:

• Date range: Try a smaller date range. You can load the rest of your data afterward through our manual data load function.
• Insufficient permissions: Please make sure your authorized account has at least admin-level permissions.
• Invalid metrics, attributes, or breakdowns: You may not have any data for the selected metrics, attributes, or breakdowns.
• Incompatible combination of metrics, attributes, or breakdowns: The combination you have selected cannot be queried together. Please refer to the service's documentation to view a full list of metrics that can be included in the same source.

Authorization Error

If your Facebook source is broken, check the extraction log to see the details of the issue.

1. Go to Sources, click on the three dots and choose Test Extraction.
2. If the error message is one of the following, go to Authorizers to reauthorize the service (Facebook).

   "response_status": "401 Unauthorized"
   

   "Www-Authenticate": "OAuth \"Facebook Platform\" \"invalid_token\" \"You cannot access the app till you log in to www.facebook.com and follow the instructions given.\""
   

   "response_body": "{\"error\":{\"message\":\"You cannot access the app till you log in to www.facebook.com and follow the instructions given.\",\"type\":\"OAuthException\",\"code\":190,\"error_data\":\"{\\\"checkpoint_url\\\":\\\"https:\\\\\\/\\\\\\/www.facebook.com\\\"}\",\"error_subcode\":459,\"fbtrace_id\":\"AUWZQsg7Opr7SEpp_lk9wUa\"}}"
   

3. Restart the broken sources by clicking on Manual Data Load icon next to your source.
   

Unable to Find Facebook Sub Accounts

If your access rights have changed or you gained access to a new Facebook account, it is possible that your other accounts will not be immediately listed in Dataddo. To fix this, please try the following:

Completely Reauthorize the Service

1. Go to the Authorizers tab in Dataddo and delete the Facebook authorizer.
   Deleting an Authorizer

   Please keep in mind that you will first need to delete all sources created with the authorizer. This will also affect your flows.

2. Go to your Facebook settings and navigate to the Business integrations tab.
3. Find Dataddo and click on Remove.
4. Now go back to the Authorizers tab in Dataddo and authorize your Facebook account again.

Check Your Account Permissions
If the method above doesn't work, please check your Facebook account's permissions. To access insights, make sure the permissions are at least on the analyst level.

Metric and Ad Recall Data Don't Match

The Reach and Recall metrics cannot be summed to get the totals for longer time periods. As these metrics measure the daily unique users who view your ad (= reach) or will remember the ad (=ad recall), it is not possible to get data for a specific time period and/or aggregate the data.

To avoid this, you can

1. Get daily breakdowns: The daily values will match, but not when summed up over a longer time period.
2. Extract data weekly or monthly: These weekly/monthly values will match.

Simply create a new source and a new flow with the particular breakdown (for example, a source and a flow with daily breakdowns/synchronizations).

Related Articles

Now that you have successfully created a data source, see how you can connect your data to a dashboarding app or a data storage.

Sending Data to Dashboarding Apps

• Simple Data Integration to Dashboards
• Data Backfilling to Dashboarding Apps

Sending Data to Data Storages

• Batch Ingestion to Data Warehouses
• Data Backfilling to Storages

Other Resources

• Troubleshooting
• Extraction Logs
• Data Duplication