ads API v8.0

[gustavwinberg]

Facebook updated their ads API to v8.0 in August of this year. Have you managed to make pySocialWatcher run with these changes? Changing the 3 constants as you mentioned in the readme unfortunately didn't do the trick.

Thanks!

[maraujo]

Hi, I'm not working with PySocialWatcher at moment besides accepting pull requests. Thus, I'm wondering if someone could help me with the update given Facebook's constant API update. *Matheus Araújo* M.Sc in Computer Science at UFMG Pursuing Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.

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[joaopalotti]

Hi folks,

@Gustav-Win, I have recently made some improvements that you might be interested in. Please have a look at my latest commits at https://github.com/joaopalotti/pySocialWatcher.
@maraujo, I will eventually create a PR when I get some time to document it.
But, in summary, I added a few new functions to create a json file for collection and updated it to Python 3.
@Gustav-Win, you can test if my repo solves your issue. A standard collection can be done with a code like this:

from pysocialwatcher import watcherAPI

# Note that parameters from constants.py are required to be set when instanciating a new watcherAPI object:
watcher = watcherAPI(api_version="8.0", sleep_time=3, save_every_x=3000, outputname="my_collection_output.csv.gz")

watcher.load_credentials_file("my_credentials.csv")
watcher.run_data_collection("my_collection.json", remove_tmp_files=True)

Cheers,

Joao

[maraujo]

Let me know when you have PR ready. Thanks for helping manage the library.