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Smarp connection guide

Follow these steps to connect your Smarp data to Supermetrics and use your data in any of our data destinations — Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Excel, 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 Smarp, you need:

  • A Smarp subdomain. This is the subdomain from your URL. 
    • This is found after the https:// in your Smarp URL. For example, in the URL https: //examplestore.smarpshare.com, examplestore is the Smarp subdomain. 
  • An API key. You'll find this in the Smarp dashboard — remember to keep it safe once you have it. Read the Authentication section of Smarp's basic concepts documentation to learn more.
  • An account name. This is the name you choose for your login. We recommend using your account's name.


Query types

To access most query types, you'll need the Company Admin role level.

  • Clicks: Returns all clicks based on the period in which clicks happened.
  • Campaigns: Returns campaigns for a specific company.
  • Groups: Returns all groups within the instance.
  • Posts: Returns posts based on the period in which posts were published. Posts that have been deleted or were published in private channels won't be returned.
  • Shares: Returns all shares based on the period in which the share was done.
  • Teams: Returns all teams in the instance.
  • Users: Returns users in the company.


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 Smarp.
  5. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  6. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  7. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  8. Click Start.
  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 Smarp 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 "Smarp requires authorization to connect to data").
  5. Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
  6. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  7. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  8. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  9. Click Start.
  10. Navigate to Report configuration.
  11. Select a query type, and click Next.
  12. In the pane's top right, click Connect.
  13. Click Create report.
  14. Click Add to report.

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

Excel

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

  1. Open an Excel file.
  2. Click DataShow Supermetrics.
  3. Under Data source, select Smarp.
  4. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  5. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  6. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Navigate to Report configuration.
  9. Select a query type.

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

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 Smarp 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 Smarp.
  9. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  10. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  11. Click Start.
  12. Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting and define the transfer settings.
  13. Click Submit.
  14. 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 Smarp 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 Smarp subdomain and API key.
  8. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  9. Click Start.
  10. In the transfer setup view, select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
  11. Click Create transfer.
Power BI
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, go to Destinations Power BI.
  3. Click Create or edit queries.
  4. Click Select a data source.
  5. Select the Smarp data source.
  6. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  7. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  8. Click Start.
  9. Fill in the query details.
  10. 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 Smarp data source.
  6. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  7. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  8. Click Start.
  9. Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
  10. 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 Smarp data source, and click Connect.
  5. Enter your Smarp subdomain and API key.
  6. Give your login a name. The name can be anything — its purpose is for you to recognize the login later in case you have multiple logins.
  7. Click Start.


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