Use this guide to connect your Rakuten 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
Supermetrics fetches performance data for affiliate campaign advertisers through Rakuten Advertising. It doesn't currently support the platform's publisher side.
To connect to Rakuten, you need to create a report, and then get your report key and API token. Follow the steps below to meet these prerequisites.
- Log in to Rakuten Advertising.
- Navigate to Reports, and then Reporting.
- Select an existing report, or build a new one. Select every column that you want to use in Supermetrics. You can alter the time range and other report settings at any time in Supermetrics itself.
- Save the report.
- Open the report you want to use in Supermetrics.
- Click the dropdown next to View report.
- Click Get API.
- You'll see your API URL. From it, pull:
- Report key: Copy the string that follows /reports/ in the URL. It should match the name you gave your report.
- API token: Copy the string that follows &token= in the URL.
- Here's an example: //ran-reporting.rakutenmarketing.com/en/reports/[REPORT-KEY]/filters?date_range=this-month&include_summary=Y&tz=GMT&date_type=transaction&token=[API-TOKEN]
- Save your report key and API token securely.
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.
- Click Start.
- Enter your report key and API token.
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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 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 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.
- 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.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your report key and API token.
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