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Connect your agent to Meta’s Marketing API to analyse paid Facebook and Instagram advertising — ad accounts, campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives, and insights. The agent can call any Marketing API endpoint, so anything you can pull from Ads Manager, the agent can pull too.

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How to enable

Go to Settings → Capabilities and enable Meta Ads, then link a workspace secret containing your Meta App ID, App Secret, and system user access token. The same secret can be reused across agents and teams. Abundly refreshes 60-day tokens automatically and saves the new token back to your workspace secret so it survives platform restarts.

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Example use cases

  • Daily performance summary — “Every weekday at 8am, post yesterday’s spend, impressions, clicks, and CTR for each active campaign to the #marketing Slack channel”
  • Anomaly watch — “If any active ad set’s CPA jumps more than 50% week-over-week, email me the breakdown by ad and creative”
  • Weekly review — “Every Monday, generate a PDF report of last week’s performance broken down by campaign objective and country”
  • Creative comparison — “Compare the top 5 ads by ROAS across all active campaigns this month and summarise the patterns”
  • Account hygiene — “List ad sets that have spent more than $500 with fewer than 100 link clicks and flag them for review”

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How to create a Meta connection

The Marketing API authenticates with a system user access token. Store it together with your Meta app’s App ID and App Secret so Abundly can refresh the token before it expires (Meta’s recommended 60-day system user tokens).
1

Open Meta Business Settings

Go to business.facebook.com/settings and select the Business that owns the ad accounts you want the agent to access.
2

Create a system user

Under Users → System Users, click Add. Give it a name (e.g. “Abundly Agent”) and choose the Employee role. Confirm to create it.
3

Assign ad accounts

With the new system user selected, click Assign Assets and pick the ad accounts the agent should access. Grant View performance for read-only access, or Manage campaigns if the agent should also create or edit campaigns. Save.
4

Create or locate your Meta app

The token must be tied to a Meta app. If your Business doesn’t already have one, create a free app at developers.facebook.com/apps (type Business) and associate it with your Business.From the app’s Settings → Basic, copy the App ID and App Secret. No public review is required for first-party usage — the system user token only works against ad accounts you’ve explicitly assigned.
5

Generate the system user token

Back in Business Settings, with the system user selected, click Generate New Token. Pick the app from step 4, then choose the scopes:
  • ads_read — required for reading campaigns, ad sets, ads, and insights
  • ads_management — only needed if the agent should create or modify campaigns
  • business_management — only needed if the agent should manage Business assets
Meta may require a 60-day expiring token — that is fine; Abundly refreshes it automatically. Copy the token immediately — Meta will not show it again.
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Configure in Abundly

Go to Settings → Capabilities, enable Meta Ads, and create a workspace secret of type Meta Ads with three fields:
  • App ID — from your Meta app
  • App Secret — from your Meta app
  • System user access token — from step 5
Select that secret on the capability card and save. Abundly refreshes the token before it expires and updates the System user access token field in your secret automatically — you only paste a new token manually if refresh fails (e.g. the token was fully expired before the next refresh).
You need to be an admin of the Business in Meta Business Settings to create system users and generate tokens. If a token is fully expired and refresh fails, generate a new system user token in Meta and update the System user access token field in your workspace secret. See Meta’s system user documentation for more details.

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API version

The agent uses the current default Marketing API version automatically. If you need to test against a different version (e.g. when Meta releases a new one), just tell the agent — it can target any version your Meta app supports.

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What this covers

This integration is scoped to paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram via the Marketing API. It does not include organic page posts, Instagram content, Messenger conversations, or WhatsApp messaging — those use different parts of Meta’s Graph API and aren’t enabled by this capability.