This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate Bing Webmaster Tools for Supermetrics in Google Sheets, Data Studio, and Microsoft Excel, as well as data warehouse destinations like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and the Supermetrics API.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Bing Webmaster Tools, webmasters need an API key. Follow Microsoft’s instructions to generate this API key.
For Excel users
If your team uses Supermetrics for Excel, you’ll see different options for managing and sharing data source connections in that destination. Learn more.
Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create query.
- Under Data source, select Bing Webmaster Tools.
- Enter your API key and click Start.
- Under Select sites, select websites.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Bing Webmaster Tools.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to Bing Webmaster Tools and click Try.
- Click Authorize. If you're authenticating Bing Webmaster Tools for the first time, log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow.
- Click Authorize.
- Enter your API key and click Start.
- Under Select sites, select websites, and click Next.
- Select the query type.
- Click Connect on the top right-hand side.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
Add or remove a user account in Data Studio
- Click the edit icon next to Bing Webmaster Tools in the Data Studio sidebar.
- At the top left of the connection pane, click Edit connection.
- Scroll down to Parameters.
- Browse team, account, and license management options in the section beginning "To add more/manage accounts..."
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with Bing Webmaster Tools.
Before you can authenticate Bing Webmaster Tools in Excel, you need to install the Supermetrics add-in.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Bing Webmaster Tools.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter your API key and click Start.
- Under Select sites, select your websites.
- BigQuery
- Data warehouses and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- The Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate
Troubleshooting
- If you encounter an authentication error such as “authentication failed”, “you need to reauthenticate” or similar, see this guide.
- If you encounter a permission error such as “user permission denied” or similar, follow this guide.