tap-linkedin-ads

This is a Singer tap that produces JSON-formatted data following the Singer spec.

This tap:

• Pulls raw data from the LinkedIn Marketing Ads July 2022
• Extracts the following resources:
  • Ad Accounts
    • Video Ads
  • Ad Account Users
  • Campaign Groups
  • Campaigns
    • Ad Analytics by Campaign
    • Creatives
    • Ad Analytics by Creative
• Outputs the schema for each resource
• Incrementally pulls data based on the input state

Streams

accounts

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/adAccounts
• Primary key field: id
• Foreign keys: reference_organization_id (organization), reference_person_id (person)
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query all, filter results)
  • Filter: account id (from config.json)
  • Sort by: account id ascending
  • Bookmark: last_modified_time (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested. String to decimal for total_budget field.
• Children: video_ads

video_ads

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/posts
• Primary key field: content_reference
• Foreign keys: account_id (accounts), owner_organization_id (organizations)
• Required scope - r_organization_social
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query all, filter results)
  • Filter: account (from parent account) and owner (from parent account) (see NOTE below)
  • Bookmark: last_modified_time (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested.
• Parent: account NOTE: The parent Account MUST reference and Organization (not a Person)
• Campaign Manager User Roles for Video Ads

account_users

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/adAccountUsers
• Primary key fields: account_id, user_person_id
• Foreign keys: account_id (accounts), user_person_id (person)
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query all, filter results)
  • Filter: account (from config.json)
  • Bookmark: last_modified_time (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested.

campaign_groups

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/adCampaignGroups
• Primary key field: id
• Foreign keys: account_id (accounts)
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query all, filter results)
  • Filter: account (from config.json)
  • Sort by: Campaign Group id ascending
  • Bookmark: last_modified_time (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested.

campaigns

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/adCampaigns
• Primary key field: id
• Foreign keys: account_id (accounts)
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query all, filter results)
  • Filter: account (from config.json)
  • Sort by: Campaign id ascending
  • Bookmark: last_modified_time (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested. String to decimal for daily_budget and unit_cost amount fields. Targeting and Targeting Criteria are transformed to a generalized type with list array structure.
• Children: creatives, ad_analytics_by_campaign, ad_analytics_by_creative

creatives

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/creatives
• Primary key field: id
• Foreign keys: campaign_id (campaigns)
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query all, filter results)
  • Filter: campaign_id (from parent campaign)
  • Sort by: Creative id ascending
  • Bookmark: last_modified_at (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times.
• Parent: campaign

ad_analytics_by_campaign

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/adAnalytics
• Primary key fields: campaign_id, start_at
• Foreign keys: campaign_id (campaigns)
• Granulariy: One record per day per campaign_id
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query filtered by bookmark date range)
  • Filter: campaign_id (from parent campaign), start/end date range (bookmark date - 7 days to current date)
  • Bookmark: end_at (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested. Currency and cost fields strings to decimals. Pivot URN to campaign and campaign_id.
• Parent: campaign

ad_analytics_by_creative

• Endpoint: https://api.linkedin.com/rest/adAnalytics
• Primary key fields: creative_id, start_at
• Foreign keys: creative_id
• Granulariy: One record per day per creative_id
• Replication strategy: Incremental (query filtered by bookmark date range)
  • Filter: campaign_id (from parent campaign), start/end date range (bookmark date - 7 days to current date)
  • Bookmark: end_at (date-time)
• Transformations: Fields camelCase to snake_case. URNs to ids. Unix epoch millisecond integers to date-times. Audit date-times created_at and last_modified_at de-nested. Currency and cost fields strings to decimals. Pivot URN to creative and creative_id.
• Parent: campaign

Authentication

The tap uses a LinkedIn provided access_token in the config settings to make API requests. Access tokens expire after 60 days and require a user to manually authenticate again. If the tap receives a 401 invalid token response, the error logs will state that your access token has expired and to re-authenticate your connection to generate a new token. This is described more in LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 Docs.

The API user account should be assigned one of the following roles:

• ACCOUNT_BILLING_ADMIN
• ACCOUNT_MANAGER
• CAMPAIGN_MANAGER
• CREATIVE_MANAGER
• VIEWER (Recommended)

The API user account should be assigned the following permissions for the API endpoints:

• accounts, account_users, video_ads, campaign_groups, campaigns, creatives:
  • r_ads: read ads (Recommended)
  • rw_ads: read-write ads
• ad_analytics_by_campaign, ad_analytics_by_creative:
  • r_ads_reporting: read ads reporting

NOTE: Legacy permissions (r_ad_campaigns) have been migrated to the new permissions (r_ads and r_ads_reporting) based on this permissions mapping.

To generate the access_token:

1. Login to LinkedIn as the API user.
2. Create an API App here:
   • App Name: tap-linkedin-ads
   • Company: search and find your company LinkedIn page
   • Privacy policy URL: link to company privacy policy
   • Business email: developer/admin email address
   • App logo: Stitch (or Company) logo
   • Products: Select Marketing Developer Platform (checkbox)
   • Review/agree to legal terms and create app
3. Verify App:
   • Provide the verify URL to your Company's LinkedIn Admin to verify and authorize the app.
   • Once verified, select the App in the Console here.
   • Review the “Auth” tab:
   • Record client_id and client_secret (for later steps).
   • Review permissions and ensure app has the permissions (above).
   • Oauth 2.0 settings: Provide a redirect_uri (for later steps): https://www.google.com
   • Review the “Products” tab and ensure “Marketing Developer Platform” has been added and approved (listed in the “added products” section).
   • Review the “Usage & limits” tab. This shows the daily application and user/member limits with percent used for each resource endpoint.
4. Authorize App: The authorization token lasts 60-days before expiring. The tap app will need to be reauthorized when the authorization token expires.
   • Create an Authorization URL with the following pattern
     • Create a random alphanumeric state_key (used to prevent CRSF).
     • URL pattern: Provide the scope from permissions above (with + delimiting each permission) and replace the other highlighted parameters: https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/authorization?response_type=code&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI&scope=YOUR_PERMISSIONS_SCOPE&state=YOUR_STATE_KEY
   • In web browser, navigate to Authorization URL.
   • Once redirected, click “Allow” to authorize app.
   • The browser will be redirected to the redirect_uri. Record the code parameter listed in the redirect URL in the Browser header URL.
5. Run the following curl command with the parameters replaced to return your access_token. The access_token expires in 2-months.

> curl -0 -v -X POST https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/accessToken\
    -H "Accept: application/json"\
    -H "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"\
    -d "grant_type=authorization_code"\
    -d "code=YOUR_CODE"\
    -d "client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID"\
    -d "client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET"\
    -d "state=YOUR_STATE_KEY"\
    -d "redirect_uri=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI"

6. Create config.json and include the access_token:

{
  "start_date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "user_agent": "tap-linkedin-ads <api_user_email@your_company.com>",
  "access_token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  "accounts": null,
  "request_timeout": 300
}

Quick Start

1. Install

   Clone this repository, and then install using setup.py. We recommend using a virtualenv:

   > virtualenv -p python3 venv
   > source venv/bin/activate
   > python setup.py install
   OR
   > cd .../tap-linkedin-ads
   > pip install .

2. Dependent libraries The following dependent libraries were installed.

   > pip install singer-python
   > pip install singer-tools
   > pip install target-stitch
   > pip install target-json
   

   • singer-tools
   • target-stitch

3. Create your tap's config.json file which should look like the following:

   {
       "start_date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
       "user_agent": "tap-linkedin-ads <api_user_email@your_company.com>",
       "access_token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
       "accounts": "id1, id2, id3",
       "request_timeout": 300
   }

   Optionally, also create a state.json file. currently_syncing is an optional attribute used for identifying the last object to be synced in case the job is interrupted mid-stream. The next run would begin where the last job left off.

   {
       "currently_syncing": "creatives",
       "bookmarks": {
           "accounts": "2019-06-11T13:37:55Z",
           "account_users": "2019-06-19T19:48:42Z",
           "video_ads": "2019-06-18T18:23:58Z",
           "campaign_groups": "2019-06-20T00:52:46Z",
           "campaigns": "2019-06-19T19:48:44Z",
           "creatives": "2019-06-11T13:37:55Z",
           "ad_analytics_by_campaign": "2019-06-11T13:37:55Z",
           "ad_analytics_by_creative": "2019-06-11T13:37:55Z"
       }
   }

4. Run the Tap in Discovery Mode This creates a catalog.json for selecting objects/fields to integrate:

   > tap-linkedin-ads --config config.json --discover > catalog.json

   See the Singer docs on discovery mode here.

5. Run the Tap in Sync Mode (with catalog) and write out to state file

   For Sync mode:

   > tap-linkedin-ads --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

   To load to json files to verify outputs:

   > tap-linkedin-ads --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | target-json > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

   To pseudo-load to Stitch Import API with dry run:

   > tap-linkedin-ads --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | target-stitch --config target_config.json --dry-run > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

6. Test the Tap

   While developing the Linkedin Ads tap, the following utilities were run in accordance with Singer.io best practices: Pylint to improve code quality:

   > pylint tap_linkedin_ads -d missing-docstring -d logging-format-interpolation -d too-many-locals -d too-many-arguments

   Pylint test resulted in the following score:

   Your code has been rated at 9.95/10 (previous run: 9.83/10, +0.12).

   To check the tap and verify working:

   > tap-linkedin-ads --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | singer-check-tap > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

   Check tap resulted in the following:

   The output is valid.
   It contained 833 messages for 8 streams.
   
       29 schema messages
       765 record messages
       39 state messages
   
   Details by stream:
   +--------------------------+---------+---------+
   | stream                   | records | schemas |
   +--------------------------+---------+---------+
   | accounts                 | 2       | 1       |
   | video_ads                | 432     | 4       |
   | account_users            | 20      | 1       |
   | campaigns                | 206     | 1       |
   | ad_analytics_by_creative | 47      | 9       |
   | ad_analytics_by_campaign | 51      | 6       |
   | creatives                | 5       | 6       |
   | campaign_groups          | 2       | 1       |
   +--------------------------+---------+---------+

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