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Create a Facebook Post Insights Data Stream in Marketing Cloud Intelligence Data Pipelines

To track and view Facebook Post insights, create a Facebook Post Insights data stream.

Required Editions

User Permissions Needed
To create an API data stream: Admin

To create a Facebook Post Insights API data stream, you need a valid Facebook user account with permissions to manage the page.

  1. On the Import tab, expand Data Streams.
  2. Click Add New.
  3. Select the Facebook Post Insights connector.
  4. In the General section, enter your credentials, and select the page that you want to pull data for. Selecting multiple pages creates a new data steam for each page selected.
  5. To add a data source authentication, click Add New and enter your Facebook credentials.
  6. In the Extended Properties section, you can enter the page ID. Only one ID can be used for a single data stream.
  7. To change the mapping, click Mapping. Otherwise, you can always access mapping by selecting Map to Model at the bottom of the Create New Stream page.
  8. To define advanced settings, at the bottom of the screen, select Advanced Settings.
  9. Click Create.
  10. Quality check your data:
    1. Create a report for Facebook Post Insights.
    2. Process the relevant data stream in Marketing Cloud Intelligence Data Pipelines.
    3. Create an identical report or pivot table in Marketing Cloud Intelligence Data Pipelines with the same dimensions, and measurements.
    4. Compare the measurement totals to make sure that they’re aligned.