Ad Library Middleware

This repository contains middleware that extracts data from the Facebook Ad Library and inserts it into BigQuery.

This is a contracted project I worked on for Saguaro Strategies.

Google Credentials

A valid Google Cloud service account key file is needed. Set the following environment variable to the path of the key file before running:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=[path to JSON key file]

See more at Authenticating as a Service Account.

Facebook Credentials

The credentials for the Facebook project must also be provided. Create a JSON file at the root of the repository called fb-credentials.json and store the following information:

{
    "app_id": "[the app id]",
    "app_secret": "[the app secret]",
    "access_token": "[a valid access token]"
}

The access token in this file will periodically be exchanged for a long-lived (60 day) access token.