Learn how to connect Piwik PRO to Supermetrics, and start adding user analytics data and more to your reports.
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 to Piwik PRO, you'll need copies of your account name, client ID, and client secret.
- Log in to your Piwik PRO dashboard.
- Your account name is the first part of the URL you see in your browser's address bar.
- For example, if your URL is exampleABC.piwik.pro, then your account name is exampleABC.
- Log in to your Piwik PRO dashboard.
- Click Menu in the top left.
- Select Profile from the dropdown.
- Select the API Keys tab on the left.
- Click Create key.
- Give your key a memorable name.
- Copy the client ID and client secret. Keep them in a secure, safe place.
Query types
- Analytics: Fetch website and product analytics data from Piwik PRO's Analytics product.
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 Piwik PRO.
- Enter your account name, client ID, and client secret.
- 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 Piwik PRO 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 "Piwik PRO 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, client ID, and client secret.
- Click Authorize.
- Select a 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 Piwik PRO.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter your account name, client ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
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