Follow these steps to connect your Readpeak 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
You'll need a Readpeak account with the Administrator, Producer, or Manager user role to connect.
You'll also need a copy of the account's API key.
- Log in to Readpeak.
- In the top right corner, click Settings.
- Open the Profile tab.
- Check your account's user role under Role. If you don't have the right permissions, get in touch with your administrator for help.
- Log in to Readpeak's API manager.
- Navigate to the top left corner. You'll find your key under Your API Key.
Be sure to keep your API key safe and secure, as it gives access to all of your account's data.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create query.
- Under Data source, select Readpeak.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
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- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Readpeak 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 "Readpeak requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type, and click Next.
- 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 Readpeak.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
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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.
- Log in to the Google Cloud Platform.
- Navigate to BigQuery → Data transfers.
- Click + Create transfer.
- Select the Readpeak data source.
- Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
- Under Third-party connection, click Connect source.
- Accept the agreement.
- Click Authorize with Readpeak.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting and define the transfer settings.
- Click Submit.
- Click Save.
Set up data warehouse transfer on the Supermetrics Hub
Make sure you've set up a data warehouse destination before you connect.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Export, go to Data warehousing → Transfers.
- Click Create new.
- Select the Readpeak data source, and click OK.
- Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
- In the Connections section, click Add new connection.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Click Start.
- In the transfer setup view, select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
- Click Create transfer.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Export, click Power BI.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Readpeak data source.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Click Start.
- Fill in the query details.
- Click Run query to test your query.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Transform, click Query Manager (API).
- Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Readpeak data source.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Click Start.
- Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
- Click Run to test your query.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, select Connect → Data sources.
- 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.
- Hover over the Readpeak data source, and click Connect.
- Enter your API key.
- 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.
- Click Start.