How to Get Last Updated Facebook Ads

To retrieve Facebook ads that have been updated recently, utilize the filtering parameter. Here's how to do it:

Filtering Parameter

The filtering parameter allows you to filter various ad objects (campaigns, ad sets, and ads) based on their updated_time field. The syntax for the filtering parameter is as follows:

filtering=[{field: "<object>.updated_time", operator: "GREATER_THAN", value: <unix time>}]

where: * <object> represents the ad object you want to filter (e.g., "campaign", "adset", or "ad") * GREATER_THAN is the comparison operator indicating that the updated time should be greater than the specified value * <unix time> is the Unix time (in seconds) representing the time after which you want to retrieve updated ads

Example: Get Campaigns Updated After a Specific Time

To fetch all campaigns updated after a specific Unix time (e.g., 2018-02-01), use the following cURL command:

curl -G \
-d 'access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
-d 'filtering=[{field:"campaign.updated_time",operator:"GREATER_THAN",value:1517443200}]' \
'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.12/act_<ACCOUNT_ID>/campaigns'

Note:

In Python, you can use the GraphAPI.get_objects() method to retrieve ad objects with the filtering parameter.

For example, to filter ad sets updated in the last one day, you can use the following code:

import facebook
import datetime

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token='YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN')

params = {
    'filtering': [
        {
            'field': 'adset.updated_time',
            'operator': 'GREATER_THAN',
            'value': (datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)).timestamp()
        }
    ]
}

adsets = graph.get_objects('act_YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID/adsets', fields='id,name,updated_time', **params)