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

Issue

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When looking at the code of the facebook-python-business-sdk, there are multiple references to unpublished content type, which makes me think that there should be a way to list all unpublished campaigns. So my question is how can I list all campaigns, published and unpublished?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

Solution

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

Answered By - Oleksii Tambovtsev

Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (PHPFixing Admin)