​Facebook Pixel is a simple JavaScript snippet that you can add to your website and track visitor activity as well as other important metrics. It allows you to measure and rudder audiences to build effective marketing and advertising campaigns.

You can now send your event data directly to Facebook Pixel through RudderStack.

Getting Started

To enable sending your event data to Facebook Pixel, you will first need to add it as a destination to the source from which you are sending your event data.

Before configuring your source and destination on the RudderStack, please verify if the source platform is supported by Facebook Pixel, by referring to the table below:

Once you have confirmed that the platform supports sending events to Facebook, perform the steps below:

• From your RudderStack dashboard, add the source. From the list of destinations, select Facebook Pixel.

• Give a name to the destination and click on Next. You should then see the following screen:

The connection settings are:

• Enter your Facebook Pixel ID (Required for both Device Mode and Cloud Mode) If you have a Business Access Token (required for Cloud Mode), enter that as well.

• Some other important settings are:

  • Value Field Identifier: You can set this field to properties.price or properties.value and will be assigned to the value field of the Facebook payload.

  • Blacklist PII Properties: The PII properties mentioned in this field will not be sent to Facebook if Blacklist PII Hash Property is not enabled. If it is enabled, the property will be hashed by SHA256 and sent to Facebook.

  • Whitelist PII Properties: The PII properties mentioned in this field will be sent to Facebook if they are present in the properties of the events.

  • Standard Events Custom Properties: For the standard events, some predefined properties are taken by Facebook. If you want to send more properties for your events, those properties should be mentioned in this setting.

  • Limited Data Usage: If enabled, RudderStack will take the data processing information from the payload and send it to Facebook. The data in the RudderStack payload should be as follows:

"context": {
  "dataProcessingOptions": [
    [
      "LDU"
    ],
    1,
    1000
  ],
  "fbc": "fb.1.1554763741205.AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOpQrStUvWxYz1234567890",
  "fbp": "fb.1.1554763741205.234567890",
  "fb_login_id": "fb_id",
  "lead_id": "lead_id",
  "device": {
    "id": "df16bffa-5c3d-4fbb-9bce-3bab098129a7R",
    "manufacturer": "Xiaomi",
    "model": "Redmi 6",
    "name": "xiaomi"
  },
  "network": {
    "carrier": "Banglalink"
  },
  "os": {
    "name": "android",
    "version": "8.1.0"
  },
  "screen": {
    "height": "100",
    "density": 50
  },
  "traits": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "anonymousId": "c82cbdff-e5be-4009-ac78-cdeea09ab4b1"
  }
}

• Finally, click on Next to complete the configuration.

Identify

In Facebook Pixel, the immediate updating of user properties via the identify call is not supported. If the Enable Advanced Matching is turned on in the dashboard, then the identify call will update Facebook Pixel with the user information.

The following snippet highlights the use of the identify call:

rudderanalytics.identify("userId", userVars); // userVars is a JSON object

Page

When the pagecall is made, the track event is sent as PageView to fbq('track,'PageView'). Any parameter sent to rudderanalytics.page() is ignored by RudderStack.

A sample page call is as shown:

rudderanalytics.page();

Track

The track call lets you track custom events as they occur in your web application.

A sample call looks like the following code snippet:

rudderanalytics.track("Product Added", {
    order_ID: "123",
    category: "boots",
    product_name: "yellow_cowboy_boots",
    price: 99.95,
    currency: "EUR",
    revenue: 2000,
    value: 3000,
    checkinDate: "Thu Mar 24 2018 17:46:45 GMT+0000 (UTC)"
});

In addition to the above call, a contentType in the integrations options can be available. If present, it will precede the default value or dashboard settings of contentType.

rudderanalytics.track("Product Added", {
        order_ID: "123",
        category: "boots",
        product_name: "yellow_cowboy_boots",
        price: 99.95,
        currency: "EUR",
        revenue: 2000,
        value: 3000,
        checkinDate: "Thu Mar 24 2018 17:46:45 GMT+0000 (UTC)"
    },{
        'Facebook Pixel': { contentType: 'mycustomtype' }
    }
);

Standard Events

In the dashboard, you have the option to map your events to standard Facebook events. RudderStack maps the events in the code and sends them to Facebook pixel as the standard event as specified. All the properties will be sent as the event properties.

The mapping is done as follows in RudderStack:

In Pixel, a currency for Purchase events is required to be specified. If not provided the default will be set to USD.

Legacy Events

In the dashboard, the legacy conversion Pixel IDs can be filled. The events which appear in the mapping are sent to Pixel with the mapped Pixel ID. The conversion events only support currency and value as their event properties.

Custom Events

Custom events are used to send any event that does not appear in any of the mappings.

Timestamps

Facebook Pixel uses ISO 8601 timestamp without the timezone information.

Facebook expects them to be sent in the following format:

"checkinDate", "checkoutDate", "departingArrivalDate", "departingDepartureDate", "returningArrivalDate", "returningDepartureDate", "travelEnd", "travelStart"

FAQs

Where can i find the Pixel ID?

To get your Pixel ID, go to your Facebook Ads Manager account. On the left navigation bar, select Business Tools, and click on Events Manager under Manage Business.

In the Data Sources, you should be able to see your Pixel ID underneath your site name.

Where can I find the Business Access Token?

In order to use the Facebook Conversions API, you need to generate an access token. We recommend using the Facebook Events Manager to do so, by following these steps:

• Choose the relevant Facebook Pixel and click on the Settings tab.

• In the Conversions API section, click on Generate access token under the Set up manually section, as shown:

Contact Us

If you come across any issues while configuring Facebook Pixel with RudderStack, please feel free to contact us. You can also start a conversation on our Slack channel; we will be happy to talk to you!