Query an Ad Report. Accessing Ad Report information requires the ads_read permission.

Table Specific Information

AdInsightsActions represents a breakdown of the Actions column from the AdInsights. See AdInsights for general information on querying AdInsights.

Select

When requesting AdInsightsActions, a Target must be specified. This indicates what element to retrieve the insights from. It can be an AdAccount, Campaign, AdSet, or an Ad. For instance:

SELECT * FROM AdInsightsActions WHERE Target = 'act_123456'

The specific collection to retrieve from AdInsightsActions may be specified via ActionCollection. If none is specified, Actions is used. Each input represents an available column from AdInsights where a collection of actions would return. Furthermore, multiple collections may be specified via the IN clause. For instance:

SELECT * FROM AdInsightsActions WHERE Target = 'act_123456' AND ActionCollection = 'UniqueActions'

SELECT * FROM AdInsightsActions WHERE Target = 'act_123456' AND ActionCollection IN ('Actions', 'UniqueActions')

Just as in the available selection criterias from AdInsights, breakdowns are available. Please see AdInsights for details on breakdowns. Additional breakdowns for AdInsightsActions include ActionType, ActionCanvasComponentName, ActionCarouselCardId, ActionCarouselCardName, ActionDestination, ActionDevice, ActionLinkClickDestination, ActionReaction, ActionTargetId, ActionVideoSound, and ActionVideoType.

ActionAttributionWindows is available to input a comma separated list of attribution windows. For instance:

SELECT * FROM AdInsightsActions WHERE Target = 'act_123456' AND level = 'ad' AND ActionAttributionWindows = '1d_view,7d_view,28d_click'

Note: The following error message may be encountered when querying from this table: "Please reduce the amount of data you're asking for, then retry your request".

This error typically occurs when the driver requests an amount of data that Facebook cannot handle the calculations for on its end. It appears to be triggered based on individually dense fields, and not the page size.

If the driver encounters this error when first executing certain types of queries, the driver will attempt to retry the query at a lower level of ad object, if possible. To retry, the driver will execute the query at the next lowest level of ad object, down to the level defined in RetryLevel. Note that if the Level parameter is specified in a query, the driver will not attempt to retry beyond the ad object level specified by Level. Please see RetryLevel for more details. Additionally, spreading queries across more granular ad objects can decrease query performance by increasing the number of requests executed for the query.

If this error is still encountered, either reduce the date range of the query or remove expensive columns.

A good method for finding and removing expensive columns is to use a binary search by removing half of the columns you are selecting and retrying the query. Then retry again with half of the remaining columns if you get the same error, or half of the removed columns if you got no error.

Columns