Account

Backfill insights

Fill the daily warehouse back in time, one month per step, in the background.

POST
/api/v1/backfill

Asking again resumes; it never re-reads a finished month. Progress shows in GET /api/v1/overview's coverage.

Requires a key with write scope or higher.

MCP: meta_backfill_insights.

Authorization

bearerAuth
headerAuthorizationBearer <token>

An API key from Settings → API keys, sent as Authorization: Bearer rsk_….

Authorization has two independent axes.

The scope is ranked — a key satisfies any requirement at or below its own tier:

  • read — every GET.
  • write — launch ads PAUSED, sync, pull history, edit thresholds, Values, briefs, tests, swipes and research.
  • admin — everything write can. No operation requires more than write today.

There is no approve scope. It was a rung once; it is not one now, and a key requested with it is rejected.

The approval grant (can_approve) is a separate boolean, not a rung. Changing spend on Meta — activating a launch, pausing or resuming ads, retargeting an ad set, or rebuilding a launch's live creative — needs write and the grant. Keeping them on separate axes is what makes the review gate a control rather than a convention: a key that may propose is not automatically a key that may approve its own proposal.

A key reaches the one workspace — one Meta ad account — it was minted in, and stops working when the operator who minted it leaves the workspace. The same key authenticates the MCP endpoint (/api/mcp) for a headless agent, with the same scope and grant.

Request Body

application/json
  1. body
since?string

How far back, YYYY-MM-DD. Optional.

Response Body

Accepted. The work continues in the background; the body says how to follow it.

application/json
  1. response
Example Request
curl -X POST 'https://winandscale.com/api/v1/backfill' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{}'
Example Response
{}