Some notes on using the FB Marketing Insights API to build a dashboard similar to Facebook Ads Manager Reporting --
The API docs appear very thorough, but are missing an exhaustive list of fields that you'd need to build a generic reporting tool. In my first attempt, I pulled all fields from these docs, but found a lot of discrepencies when compared to FB's UI.
It's more productive to scrape the visible options from FB's own UI, which can be done like this:
- Visit Facebook Ads Manager Reporting and open the report builder
- Select the Breakdowns tab
- Use this nasty JS snippet in the dev console