How to Integrate Lovable with Quora Ads

Quora Ads API access is available to advertisers but may require an application or approval process. Start by logging in to Quora Ads Manager at quora.com/business/ads and navigating to the settings or account management section. Look for a 'Developer' or 'API Access' option — if you do not see it, you may need to contact Quora Ads support to request API access for your account. Quora Ads API access is typically available to accounts with a certain minimum spend history or those on managed accounts. When submitting your API access request, describe your use case clearly — building a custom analytics dashboard for internal reporting is a common and accepted use case. Once API access is granted, you will receive an API token. This token is a long alphanumeric string that authenticates all API calls as your ad account. Note your account ID from the Quora Ads Manager URL, which appears as a numeric string after /accounts/ in the browser address bar — you will need this to scope all API calls to your specific account. The base URL for the Quora Ads API is https://www.quora.com/ads/api/2 and the authentication method is Bearer token in the Authorization header. Keep the token secure: anyone with it can read your campaign data and potentially make changes to your campaigns, so treat it with the same care as a password.

In your Lovable project, open the Cloud tab by clicking '+' next to the Preview panel, then navigate to the Secrets section. Click 'Add Secret' and add two secrets for the Quora Ads integration. First, add QUORA_ADS_TOKEN with your API token value. Second, add QUORA_ADS_ACCOUNT_ID with your numeric Quora Ads account ID — this is used in the API path for all account-scoped requests. Keeping both values in Cloud Secrets rather than hardcoded in your Edge Function makes it easier to rotate the token if needed or to update your account ID without redeploying the function. Lovable's Cloud Secrets are encrypted at rest and protected by SOC 2 Type II certification — the token is never visible to your React frontend code, never included in your GitHub repository, and never logged in application logs. The platform's automated security layer blocks approximately 1,200 hardcoded API keys per day, but the strongest protection comes from following the correct pattern: all credentials belong in Cloud Secrets, accessed via Deno.env.get() in Edge Functions only. For agencies managing multiple client Quora Ads accounts, consider a multi-tenant pattern where each client's token and account ID are stored in your Supabase database per user rather than as static secrets.

Ask Lovable to create a Supabase Edge Function called quora-ads-api that proxies requests to the Quora Ads API. The function should read both secrets from Deno.env.get(), accept a path parameter and optional query parameters in the request body, construct the full URL as https://www.quora.com/ads/api/2/{accountId}/{path}, add the Authorization: Bearer header with the token, execute the request, and return the response. The Quora Ads API uses a hierarchical URL structure where the account ID is part of the path — for example, fetching campaigns uses /accounts/{accountId}/campaigns. Build the Edge Function to accept just the portion of the path after the account ID so the account ID does not need to be specified by the frontend. This keeps the account ID hidden from the browser and ensures the frontend cannot accidentally request data for a different account. For analytics and reporting, the Quora Ads API has a separate reporting endpoint that accepts date ranges and metric breakdowns as request body parameters — the function should support POST requests to enable these reporting queries. Include error handling that surfaces Quora Ads error messages to help debug configuration issues during development.

1import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@0.168.0/http/server.ts";
2
3const corsHeaders = {
4  "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
5  "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "authorization, x-client-info, apikey, content-type",
6};
7
8serve(async (req) => {
9  if (req.method === "OPTIONS") return new Response("ok", { headers: corsHeaders });
10
11  try {
12    const token = Deno.env.get("QUORA_ADS_TOKEN");
13    const accountId = Deno.env.get("QUORA_ADS_ACCOUNT_ID");
14    if (!token || !accountId) throw new Error("Quora Ads credentials not configured");
15
16    const { path, method = "GET", body: reqBody, params } = await req.json();
17    if (!path) throw new Error("path is required");
18
19    const url = new URL(
20      `https://www.quora.com/ads/api/2/accounts/${accountId}/${path}`
21    );
22
23    if (params) {
24      Object.entries(params as Record<string, string>).forEach(([k, v]) => {
25        url.searchParams.set(k, v);
26      });
27    }
28
29    const fetchOptions: RequestInit = {
30      method,
31      headers: {
32        "Authorization": `Bearer ${token}`,
33        "Content-Type": "application/json",
34      },
35    };
36
37    if (reqBody && method !== "GET") {
38      fetchOptions.body = JSON.stringify(reqBody);
39    }
40
41    const response = await fetch(url.toString(), fetchOptions);
42    const data = await response.json();
43
44    if (!response.ok) {
45      throw new Error(data.error?.message || JSON.stringify(data));
46    }
47
48    return new Response(JSON.stringify(data), {
49      headers: { ...corsHeaders, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
50    });
51  } catch (error) {
52    return new Response(
53      JSON.stringify({ error: error.message }),
54      { status: 500, headers: { ...corsHeaders, "Content-Type": "application/json" } }
55    );
56  }
57});

With the Edge Function working, ask Lovable to build the campaign performance dashboard. Start by fetching the list of campaigns from path 'campaigns' to get campaign names and IDs. For performance metrics, you will need to call the Quora Ads reporting endpoint — typically a POST to a path like 'reporting/campaigns' with a request body that specifies the date range, metric columns, and breakdown dimensions. Common metrics in the Quora Ads API include impressions, clicks, spend, conversions, ctr (click-through rate), cpc (cost per click), and cpa (cost per acquisition). The date range is specified using start_date and end_date in YYYY-MM-DD format in the request body. Structure your dashboard with summary metric cards at the top showing total impressions, total clicks, total spend, and total conversions for the selected period. Below the summary, display a sortable data table with one row per campaign. Add a date range selector component that lets users switch between predefined ranges (Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 90 days) and a custom range picker. When the user changes the date range, refetch the reporting data and update the dashboard. Include a simple bar chart showing daily spend over the selected period to help users identify high-spend days and correlate them with campaign changes.