Facebook

The Lyftron Provider for Facebook offers the most natural way to access Facebook data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing Facebook data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Facebook data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to Facebook.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for Facebook, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your Facebook connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click Facebook for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

Lyftron Data allows connectivity with three ways 

• Lyftron Authentication : Embedded Oauth option where Lyftron data takes care of the connectivity and Oauth based on Lyftron Data Client Id and Lyftron Data Client Secret.
• Self Service Authentication: This is the regular Oauth option which requires Client Id and Client Secret for Oauth. This option requires Facebook App registration and more information can be found here

                       

•  Service Account Authentication: This is the manual connection string authentication. In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish Facebook connection with Lyftron.

InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthAccessToken=[your_username];OAuthClientId=[your_password];

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	your Facebook GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthAccessToken	Your username	Required
OAuthClientId	Your password	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity options and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Facebook connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The provider models the data in Facebook into a list of tables that can be queried using standard SQL statements.