mat-facebook-downloader

Downloader for Facebook ads archive for Media Analytics Tool project.

Development

Installation & test run

git clone git@github.com:lvtffuk/mat-facebook-downloader.git
cd mat-facebook-downloader
npm install
npm start

Settings

The settings are set with environment variables.

Variable	Description	Required	Default value
TOKENS_FILE_PATH	The filepath of the csv file with access tokens.	✔️
SEARCH_INPUT_FILE_PATH	The filepath of the csv file with search input data.	✔️
OUT_DIR	The directory where the output is stored.	✔️
CSV_SEPARATOR	The separator of the input csv files.	❌	;
WORKER_CONCURRENCY	The count of parallel runs of the downloading ads archive.	❌	5
CLEAR	Indicates if the output dir should be cleared before the run. All downloads are starting again.	❌	0
ADS_ARCHIVE_LIMIT	The limit of the results in the Facebook API request.	❌	100

Input files

Facebook tokens

For access to the Facebook Ads Library are needed access tokens allowed to read the ads archive.
Additionally there should be Facebook application created.

The tokens must be stored in csv files.

Example

"id";"secret";"token"
"appId";"appSecret";"accessToken"
"appId";"appSecret";"accessToken"
"appId";"appSecret";"accessToken"
"appId";"appSecret";"accessToken"

First line is header.
The appId and appSecret can be retrieved from the developers console.
The access token can be retrieved from the Graph API Explorer. The user must log in the correct app.

Search input

The search input is csv file which contains information about the data to search.

Example

"countries";"search"
"countries";"searchTerm"
"countries";"searchTerm"
"countries";"searchTerm"
"countries";"searchTerm"
"countries";"searchTerm"

First line is header.
The countries are comma separated country codes and searchTerm is the term to search in archive.

Output

The output is stored in Apache Parquet file in the output directory as archive.parquet.

Docker

The image is stored in GitHub packages registry and the app can be run in the docker environment.

docker pull ghcr.io/lvtffuk/mat-facebook-downloader:latest

docker run \
--name=mat-facebook-downloader \
-e 'TOKENS_FILE_PATH=./input/tokens.csv' \
-e 'SEARCH_INPUT_FILE_PATH=./input/search.csv' \
-e 'OUT_DIR=./output' \
-v '/absolute/path/to/output/dir:/usr/src/app/output' \
-v '/absolute/path/to/input/dir:/usr/src/app/input' \
ghcr.io/lvtffuk/mat-facebook-downloader:latest  

The volumes must be set for accessing input and output data.

This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund-Project “Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World” (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734)."