This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate AppsFlyer with Google Sheets, 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 AppsFlyer, you need:
- Account admin access
- Two API tokens (V1.0 and V2.0)
Retrieve your API tokens
- Log in to AppsFlyer.
- Click the email address in the top right corner to open the user menu drop-down.
- Click Security center.
- Under AppsFlyer API tokens, select Manage your AppsFlyer API tokens.
- Copy both tokens.
Learn more about retrieving and managing your tokens in AppsFlyers' documentation.
Query types
Supermetrics support the Performance query type, which returns aggregated that shows how different marketing channels and user acquisition sources perform.
For Excel users
If your team uses Supermetrics for Excel, you’ll see different options for managing and sharing AppsFlyer connections in that destination. Learn more.
Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create query.
- Under Data source, select AppsFlyer.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials, including an account name and your tokens, and click Start.
- Click Allow.
- Under Select accounts, select the accounts.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to AppsFlyer and click Try.
- Click Authorize.
- If you're authenticating the AppsFlyer for the first time, log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow.
- Click Authorize.
- Enter your credentials, including an account name and your tokens, and click Start.
- Select your accounts.
- 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.
- Click Connection at the top right-hand side.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report to complete the authentication steps.
Add or remove a user account in Data Studio
- Click the edit icon next to AppsFlyer in the Data Studio sidebar.
- At the top left of the connection pane, click Edit connection.
- Scroll down to Parameters.
- Browse team, account, and license management options in the section beginning "To add more/manage accounts..."
Before you can authenticate the AppsFlyer in Excel, you need to install the Supermetrics add-in.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select AppsFlyer.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials, including an account name and your tokens, and click Start.
- Select your accounts.
Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- BigQuery
- Data warehouses and cloud storage (Amazon S, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- The Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate AppsFlyer
Troubleshooting
- If you encounter an authentication error such as “authentication failed”, “you need to reauthenticate” or similar, see this guide.
- If you encounter a permission error such as “user permission denied” or similar, follow this guide.