Follow these steps to connect your Adtraction data to 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 Adtraction, you need an Adtraction API token. These are also referred to as API keys.
To generate this token:
- Log in to Adtraction.
- Navigate to Account → Settings.
- Select API from the navigation menu.
- Copy the API token. Remember to keep it safe.
Query types
Supermetrics supports 2 Adtraction query types:
- Advertiser
- Affiliate accounts
If you're logged with an API token belonging to an advertiser account, you can only use the report types intended for advertiser users. The same applies to affiliate accounts.
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 Adtraction.
- Enter your account name and API key.
- Click Start.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type and approval status.
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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 Adtraction 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 "Adtraction 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 and API key.
- Click Start.
- Select your query type and approval status.
- 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 Adtraction.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your account name and API key.
- Click Start.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select your query type and approval status.
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