Follow these steps to connect your Sprout Social data to your reporting with 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 Sprout Social to Supermetrics, you need:
- An account that's been provisioned for API by the Sprout Social account owner
- An API token
- Your account's owner should follow Sprout Social's instructions to create this token.
- A copy of your customer ID
- Contact Sprout Social's support and ask for the customer ID that's used to access your account's data via API.
Query types
Our Sprout Social connector supports 2 query types:
- Posts: Measure your social media posts' user engagement.
- Tags: List your social media tags.
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 Sprout Social.
- Enter a memorable name for your account.
- Enter your API token and customer ID.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type.
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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 Sprout Social 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 "Sprout Social 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 a memorable name for your account.
- Enter your API token and customer ID.
- 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 Sprout Social.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter a memorable name for your account.
- Enter your API token and customer ID.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type.
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