How to access all draft campaigns with the Facebook marketing API?

Question

I'm trying to list all of my draft campaigns using the Facebook marketing API. By default, it seems, only non-draft (published?) campaigns are listed when calling

curl -i -X GET \
 "https://graph.facebook.com/v12.0/act_12345/campaigns?fields=id,name&access_token=<mytoken>"

When looking at the code of the facebook-python-business-sdk, there are multiple references to unpublished content type, which makes me think that there should be a way to list all unpublished campaigns. So my question is how can I list all campaigns, published and unpublished?

I know this question is a duplicate (see here, here, and here) but I'm asking it again since it has not been answered and I'd like to put out a bounty for a helpful response.

Interpreter

Answer 1

I believe the only way to get draft campaigns is below:

1. You should get all addrafts. On my account I have only 1 addraft that contains all draft campaigns, but maybe you can have more. URL for getting addrafts:

https://graph.facebook.com/v12.0/act_<ad_account_id>/addrafts?access_token=<access_token>&fields=name,ad_object_id,id

2. Now you can get addraft_fragments. You can see all draft fragments of your ad_account (campaigns, adsets, ads), but you can easily find here what you want. URL for getting addraft_fragments:

https://graph.facebook.com/v12.0/<addraft_id>/addraft_fragments?access_token=<access_token>&fields=name,id,ad_object_id,ad_object_type,budget,ad_object_name,values

Negrillo

When running the first call, I receive "message": "(#100) Tried accessing nonexisting field (addrafts) on node type (AdAccount)", – Interpreter

@TeaTree what type of access_token do you use? I suppose you use access_token of developer application, this token doesn't have needed permissions. But user access_token used on Facebook Ads Manager user interfaces have this permissions. – Negrillo

Interesting, I was under the impression that I would always have to create a Facebook App in order to use the Marketing API. How do I get a Ads Manager access_token? – Interpreter

There is no documented way to get this token. The only way is to get it from page source code at Facebook UI, for example at Ads Manager. – Negrillo

@OleksiiTambovtsev could you please elaborate on this? How do you get the token from the Ads Manager page source? I wanted it for testing this addrafts. – Fonzie