How to connect Excel to Facebook?

Facebook groups are created for specific purposes. This tool is satisfactory as it can be used to share one piece of data with many users. There is a small group of people communicating for a specific reason. So, it can act as a channel for sharing important messages, documents, spreadsheets, etc., with the group members. Others will get notified of sharing messages and can download the documents from the group page. There are many ways to share excel workbooks with others. But why share on the Facebook page? Actually, there is no need to send mail again. All your friends will automatically download it from your Facebook page. There is also no need to purchase a premium in this case. Next, you can grab the data from the Facebook page into Excel using a power query. This is a tool for importing all external data from sources such as the web, databases, and files already saved on your computer. It is used to analyze the imported data from external sources.

Power Query 

Power query is a data preparation engine and data transformation. It has a graphical interface for getting data from external sources. It has an editor for applying transformations. It allows you to import data from sources and reshape your data. It is used for data analysis.

Facebook Insights

It is a web page analysis tool that allows a user to view his page statistics. Information is collected on a daily basis and allows a user to view daily or monthly data. Its target is to gather post performance and page views. We will learn how to get data from a Facebook page using a power query step by step. Also, there is a procedure to open a Facebook page using a power query in Excel. The most basic requirement is that you have the latest version of Microsoft Excel. You have to install software as you have the old version. For those who don’t have Excel, You can use the WPS office to import data. It is the easiest way without the installation of any software.

Connecting Excel to Facebook

Step 1: Open spreadsheet. 

The first step is to open the spreadsheet in the WPS office.

Step 2: Select import data. 

The second step is to select import data from the menu bar.

Step 3: Select from other options.

The next step is to select one option from the imported data. There are four options. You have to select “from the web.”

Step 4: New tab will be open.

It will open the tab “new web query”

Step 5: Log in to your Facebook account

Step 6: Click on the “import” option

By clicking on the “import” option, you will get the data on an excel sheet.

Step 7: Query editor.

Then click on okay, and the window will open. You can see the activity of the Facebook user.

If you have a business Facebook page, you can use the insights option to understand how your page is growing. If you want to show your insights dashboard to other people, But you’re afraid of disclosing your login information. You can import your insight data into the spreadsheet.

Let’s see what Facebook insights are, and how to access them and import them into a spreadsheet. Follow the above-mentioned steps from Step 1 to Step 5. Now, go to your “page” option.

Click on your page name. There will be many options. You have to choose the insights option.

Click on Import to have all your data on an excel sheet. Furthermore, you can proceed towards reshaping and transforming it as per your requirements.