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Semrush Projects connection guide

Follow these steps to connect your Semrush Projects data to Supermetrics and use your data in our data destinations — Google Sheets, Looker Studio, data warehouses, and Power BI, as well as the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.


You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.


Before you begin

To connect Supermetrics to Semrush Projects, you need an API account, an API key, and a Semrush subscription for API request units. Learn more about Semrush accounts and API request units.


Each API call has a cost, and the cost of requests is measured in API units. Units are determined by the type of report or request retrieved from the Semrush API, and fetching historical data requires more units than live data. One US dollar is equal to approximately 20,000 API units.


Query types

Set up your Semrush Project queries using any of the query types described below.


Reference list: Semrush Projects query types
  • Position tracking
    • Campaign dates
    • Organic overview
    • Organic positions report
    • Adwords positions report
    • Organic competitors discovery report
    • Adwords competitors discovery report
    • Organic visibility index report
    • Adwords visibility index report
  • Site audit
    • Get a list of a campaign's snapshots
    • Get text descriptions about issues
    • Get information about a campaign
    • Get information about a snapshot
    • Detailed report for an issue
    • Get page ID by an URL
    • Get information about a page
    • Get snapshots history

Instructions

Google Sheets

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

  1. Open a new Google Sheets file.
  2. Navigate to ExtensionsSupermetricsLaunch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
  3. Click Create new query.
  4. Under Data source, select Semrush Projects.
  5. Enter your API key.
  6. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Select a project to include in your reports.
  9. Navigate to Report configuration.
  10. Select a query type.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.

Looker Studio
  1. Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
  2. Navigate to Semrush Projects and click Start free trial.
  3. You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
  4. Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Semrush Projects requires authorization to connect to data").
  5. Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
  6. Enter your API key.
  7. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  8. Click Start.
  9. Click Done.
  10. Select a project to include in your reports and a query type.
  11. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
  12. Click Next.
  13. Select the query options.
  14. In the pane's top right, click Connect.
  15. Click Create report.
  16. Click Create report again.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Looker Studio.

Data warehouse

Follow these instructions to set up a transfer with Supermetrics for BigQuery (marketplace). See the instructions below for other data warehouse destinations.


Set up transfer for BigQuery (marketplace)

Make sure you've enrolled the data source before you connect.

  1. Log in to the Google Cloud Platform.
  2. Navigate to BigQueryData transfers.
  3. Click + Create transfer.
  4. Select the Semrush Projects data source.
  5. Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
  6. Under Third-party connection, click Connect source.
  7. Accept the agreement.
  8. Click Authorize with Semrush Projects.
  9. Enter your API key.
  10. Click Start.
  11. Select the projects you'd like to include in your reporting and define the transfer settings.
  12. Click Submit.
  13. Click Save.


Set up data warehouse transfer on the Supermetrics Hub

Make sure you've set up a data warehouse destination before you connect.

  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, go to StorageTransfers.
  3. Click New transfer. If you haven't created any transfers yet, click Schedule first transfer
  4. Select the Semrush Projects data source, and click OK.
  5. Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
  6. In the Connections section, click Add new connection.
  7. Enter your API key.
  8. Click Start.
  9. In the transfer setup view, select the projects you'd like to include in your reporting.
  10. Click Create transfer.
Power BI
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, go to DestinationsPower BI.
  3. Click Create or edit queries.
  4. Click Select a data source.
  5. Select the Semrush Projects data source.
  6. Enter your API key.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Fill in the query details.
  9. Click Run query to test your query.
The Supermetrics API
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, click API.
  3. Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
  4. Click Select data source.
  5. Select the Semrush Projects data source.
  6. Enter your API key.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
  9. Click Run to test your query.
Supermetrics Hub
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, click Data sources.
  3. Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
  4. Hover over the Semrush Projects data source, and click Connect.
  5. Enter your API key.
  6. Click Start.


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