Once you’ve authenticated your connection to Yahoo DSP, you’re ready to create your first query.
This guide will walk you through Yahoo DSP query setup for Google Sheets, Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio), and Excel, as well as data warehouse destinations like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and the Supermetrics API.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Yahoo DSP, you need:
- API access and a Client ID and Client secret. To enable the API, please follow the One-time setup steps.
Available fields
Visit our documentation site for a full list of the metrics and dimensions Supermetrics can pull from the data source.
- Field label is the name that appears in the sidebar.
- Metrics can be found under type - “met”.
- Dimensions can be found under type - “dim” .
Instructions
- Authenticate the data source in Google Sheets.
- Select Metrics.
- Select Split by Dimensions. You can choose to split your data into rows and/or columns, reflect the number of rows or columns to be fetched, and define how the data is sorted.
- Click Get Data to Table to create your query and pull your data.
Advanced options for Google Sheets
- You can filter your data by selecting the field, operator, and value to filter by. Learn more about filters.
- Under Options, you can add additional features to your query.
- Replace blank metric values with zeros.
- Combine new results with old.
- Format results for Looker Studio (to import data from Google Sheets to Looker Studio).
- No header row.
- Highlight values with colours (green, red, etc.).
- Advanced settings.
- Authenticate the data source in Looker Studio.
- Under Dimension, select Dimensions.
- Under Metric, select Metrics.
- Select how to sort the data.
- Select the Date range from the auto or custom options. If you choose a custom date range, click the arrow on the top-right hand side. Under a specific period, select a Start Date and End Date.
Advanced options for Looker Studio
You can filter your data by selecting the field, condition, and value to filter by. Learn more about using filters.
- Authenticate the data source in Excel.
- Select Metrics.
- Select Split by Dimensions. You can choose to split your data into rows and/or columns, reflect the number of rows or columns to be fetched, and define how the data is sorted.
- Click Get data to create your query and pull your data.
Advanced options for Excel
- You can filter your data by selecting the field, operator, and value to filter by. Learn more about filters.
- Under Options, you can add additional features to your query. Learn more about Supermetrics advanced settings in Excel.
Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- Set up BigQuery
- Set up data warehouse and cloud storage products (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- Set up the Supermetrics API
Troubleshooting
- If you see an error about metrics and dimensions not fetching together, or fields being incompatible, follow these steps to fix the issue.
- If you see errors relating to quotas, or “daily query quotas”, read this guide.