Retrieve Metadata for Targeting Data

This function retrieves metadata for targeting data releases for a specific country and timeframe from a GitHub repository.

Usage

retrieve_targeting_metadata(
  country_code,
  timeframe,
  base_url = "https://github.com/favstats/meta_ad_targeting/releases/expanded_assets/"
)

Arguments

country_code

Character. The ISO country code (e.g., "DE", "US").

timeframe

Character. The timeframe to filter (e.g., "7", "30", or "90").

base_url

Character. The base URL for the GitHub repository. Defaults to "https://github.com/favstats/meta_ad_targeting/releases/".

Value

A data frame containing metadata about available targeting data, including file names, sizes, timestamps, and tags.

Examples

# Retrieve metadata for Germany for the last 30 days
metadata <- retrieve_targeting_metadata("DE", "30")
print(metadata)
#> # A tibble: 437 × 3
#>    cntry ds         tframe      
#>    <chr> <chr>      <chr>       
#>  1 DE    2025-05-09 last_30_days
#>  2 DE    2025-05-08 last_30_days
#>  3 DE    2025-05-07 last_30_days
#>  4 DE    2025-05-06 last_30_days
#>  5 DE    2025-05-05 last_30_days
#>  6 DE    2025-05-04 last_30_days
#>  7 DE    2025-04-27 last_30_days
#>  8 DE    2025-04-26 last_30_days
#>  9 DE    2025-04-25 last_30_days
#> 10 DE    2025-04-24 last_30_days
#> # ℹ 427 more rows