To connect your Rakuten Advertising data to Supermetrics, you first need to create a report in Rakuten Advertising itself that includes all the data you want to add to your reports. It'll give you the credentials you need to import that data 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
First, create a report in Rakuten Advertising that includes all of the data you want to fetch with Supermetrics.
You can also use an existing report — if you'd rather do this, you can skip these steps and follow the instructions to get your report key and API token.
- Log in to Rakuten Advertising.
- Navigate to Reports, and click Reporting.
- Select an existing report, or build a new one. We recommend selecting every column you want to use in Supermetrics (but bear in mind that reports with more columns will load more slowly).
- Adjust your report's settings — you can make further changes in Supermetrics once it's connected, too.
- Click Save.
- Log in to Rakuten Advertising.
- Open the report you want to use with Supermetrics.
- Open the dropdown next to "View report".
- Click Get API.
- You'll see your report's API URL. This contains your report key and API token.
- Copy the text between /reports/ and /filters in the URL. This is your report key. Save it in a safe place.
- Copy the text after &token=. This is your API token. Store it securely.
Example report key and API token
ran-reporting.rakutenmarketing.com/en/reports/[report-key]/filters?date_range=this-month&include_summary=Y&tz=GMT&date_type=transaction&token=[APITOKEN]
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 Rakuten Advertising.
- Enter your report key and API token.
- Give this account a name — this can be anything that helps you distinguish this account from the others you use in Supermetrics.
- Click Start.
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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 Rakuten Advertising 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 "Rakuten Advertising 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 report key and API token.
- Give this account a name — this can be anything that helps you distinguish this account from the others you use in Supermetrics.
- 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 Rakuten Advertising.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter your report key and API token.
- Give this account a name — this can be anything that helps you distinguish this account from the others you use in Supermetrics.
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