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JoinBy (deprecated)

JoinBy (deprecated)

Joins two lists by keys and returns selected values.

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This node is now deprecated. Use the Join Data node instead.

The JoinBy node helps you to join two lists based on a set of conditions, e.g. to join

  • Facebook Insights and Ads based on the ad id
  • Facebook Adsets and Campaigns based on the campaign id
  • two Facebook Insights for different timeframes based on the ad object id
  • or whatever else you wish ✨
 
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How to use the JoinBy node

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Currently, the JoinBy node is configured using JSON, which makes usage a bit more technical. In the future, there’ll be an easy-to-use form.
 

Connect your main list to socket a and your second list to socket b. The config socket contains three parts:

  • conditions
  • list_alias
  • selections
{
  "conditions": [],
  "list_alias": {},
  "selections": {}
}

The JoinBy node works similar to how the “LEFT JOIN” statement in SQL works.

 

Conditions

The most important to determine how the two lists should be joined is the conditions part. For example if you want to join data at the ad level, you may choose the ad id as the only condition. E.g. if you want to join Facebook Insights data on ad level and Facebook ads, the ad id shows up as ad_id in the insights data and as id in the ads:

conditions
[
  {
    "a": "ad_id",
    "b": "id"
  }
]

When joining the ads to your insights, you may not want to add all fields or have them show up with a particular name.

List Aliases

Use the list_alias field to identify each list in the newly created list. The alias will be prepended to each field. You can simply leave both empty, i.e. as empty strings, too.

list_alias
{
  "a": "",
  "b": ""
}

Selections

If you don’t want to add all data, you can use the selections field. To choose all fields from a list simply use "*" . If you only want to add individual fields you can do so specifying and an optional alias.

selections

{
  "a": "*",
  "b": [
    {
      "key": "effective_status",
      "alias": "ad_status"
    }
  ]
}

Putting it together

Let’s complete the example assuming we have Facebook insights data and Facebook ads in sockets a and b, respectively.

 
Facebook Insights data in socket a
[
	{
		"spend": 25.23,
		"ad_id": "123456789"
	}
]
Facebook ads data in socket b
[
	{
		"name": "Ad Name 123",
		"effective_status": "ACTIVE",
		"id": "123456789"
	}
]
 

Using the entire config field we can now join the data:

{
  "conditions": [
	  {
	    "a": "ad_id",
	    "b": "id"
	  }
	],
  "list_alias": {
	  "a": "",
	  "b": ""
	},
  "selections": {
	  "a": "*",
	  "b": [
	    {
	      "key": "effective_status",
	      "alias": "ad_status"
	    }
	  ]
	}
}
 

Result:

Joined list
[
	{
		"spend": 25.23,
		"ad_id": "123456789",
		"ad_status": "ACTIVE"
	}
]
 
 
 
 
 
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Last updated on January 31, 2023

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