Use this guide to connect your Smarp data to the reports you create with Supermetrics.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Smarp, you need:
- An account name. This is the name you choose for your login. We recommend using your account's name.
- 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.
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
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Smarp.
- Click Start.
- Enter your account name, Smarp subdomain, and API key.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Smarp and click Start free trial.
- 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.
- 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").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your account name, Smarp subdomain, and API key.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type.
- 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.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
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Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Smarp.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your account name, Smarp subdomain, and API key.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type.
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