Facebook Marketing Connector: How to retrieve insights from archived and deleted ads?

Connector Questions & Issues
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  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: AWS Linux 2
  • Memory / Disk: 4Gb
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.14
  • Source name/version: Facebook Marketing 0.2.73
  • Destination name/version: Redshift 0.3.51
  • Step: The issue is happening during sync
  • Description:

When syncing the ads_insights table, the source does not return data from archived ads. It is possible to request this data from Facebook’s API. Insights API - Marketing API - Documentation - Meta for Developers

The option to “Include Deleted” is selected in the source configuration.

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Hello Collin Scangarella, it’s been a while without an update from us. Are you still having problems or did you find a solution?

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I haven’t found a solution. The sync doesn’t include archived ads. It isn’t a huge deal so I haven’t bothered contributing to the connector.

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Hey @collinscangarella,

Could you make an issue on our Github repo requesting this sync? It might motivate someone from our community to work on it. Let me know if that’s too much trouble, we appreciate the request for improvement/question here.