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 data warehouse and cloud storage setup 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
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.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Facebook Insights and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Facebook Insights requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.