GET /datasources


Description	Get a list of all the data sources to which the user has access.
Permissions	dashboard.library
Resource URL	https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1.0/datasources
Parameters	client_id={id}

Example Request

GET https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1/datasources?client_id=0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef

Example Response

{
  "meta": {
    "success": true,
    "status": 200,
    "count": 4,
    "total": 4
  },
  "data": {
    "datasources": [
      {
        "id": "c98bad42a8c8a63e0b5e6c0f7aca9898",
        "name": "Example: Marketing Web Analytics",
        "description": "Sample data you can use when trying out Klipfolio. This is an example of typical web analytics data that you might pull out of services like Google Analytics, GoSquared or Adobe Analytics.",
        "refresh_interval": 0,
        "date_last_refresh": "2016-06-17T13:33:57Z",
        "is_dynamic": false
      },
     
    ]
  }
}

GET /datasources/{id}


Description	Get the details for the specific data source id.
Permissions	dashboard.library
Resource URL	https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1.0/datasources/{id}
Parameters	id={datasource id}

Example Request

GET https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1/datasources/0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef

Example Response

{
  "data": {
       "id":"0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
       "company":"Self",
       "name":"Sample Datasource",
       "description":"Datasource sample details",
       "connector":"google_adwords",
       "format":"csv",
       "refresh_interval":432000,
       "created_by":"98765432109876543210987654321",
       "is_dynamic":false,
       "disabled":false,
       "date_created":"2014-11-04T20:26:22Z",
       "date_last_refresh":"2014-11-12T21:43:10Z"
  },
  "meta": {
      "status": 200,
      "success": true
  }

POST /datasources


Description	Create a data source. Data source properties can optionally be specified in the post data.
Permissions	datasource.create
Resource URL	https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1.0/datasources/{id}
Fields	name, description, format, connector, refresh_interval, properties, client_id (optional) Where connector could be: 'box', 'comscore', 'db', 'dropbox', 'facebook', 'ftp', 'google_adwords', 'google_analytics', 'google_drive', 'google_spreadsheets', 'hubspot', 'iformbuilder', 'marketo', 'omniture', 'radian6', 'salesforce', 'searchMetrics', 'shopify', 'simple_rest', 'survey_monkey', 'versature', 'xero', 'xmla'

Example Requests

Note: optionally include 'client_id' in the post data to create a data source for a client.


POST https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1/datasources -d
“{'name': 'Example','description': 'This is a new data source', 'format': 'xml', 'connector': 'simple_rest', 'refresh_interval': 1800, 'properties': {'endpoint_url': 'http://test/data/scatter.xml', 'method': 'GET'}}”

This is an example request for a Google Analytics dynamic data source:

POST https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1/datasources -d "{'name': 'Test', 'description': 'Test', 'connector': 'google_analytics', 'format': 'csv', 'refresh_interval': 12345, 'properties': { 'endpoint_url': 'https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga\?ids=ga:{props.profile_id}\&dimensions=ga:deviceCategory,ga:date\&metrics=ga:sessions\&start-date={date.add(-365).format()}\&end-date={date.today}\&max-results=10000', 'oauth_provider_id': 'google20', 'oauth_user_header': '123456abcdefg123456abcdef1234abcd12ab1234abcd', 'oauth_user_token': 'ab12.Ai-aA1G23BcD4EF5gHijk678lMNOpqrSTu-vW_x9Yzabcd1Efghij2kl3m4_N5OPQjQ', 'token_id': '123ab45c6a123b123a1abc1234abc12b1', 'prop:profile_id': '123456789'}}"

Example Response

Note that both the data source id and the corresponding data source instance id is returned.

{
 "meta": {
   "success": true,
   "status": 201,
   "location": "/datasources/5d8821caa9ac3b2a291496e182de13e2",
   "instance_location": "/datasource_instances/5d8821caa9ac3b2a291496e182de13e2"
 },
 "data": { }
}

PUT /datasources/{id}


Description	Update the specified data source.
Permissions	datasource.edit
Resource URL	https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1.0/datasources
Fields	name, description, refresh_interval

Example Request

PUT https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1/datasources/8ea607c46ba6a7ba6e4c16ee292d7608 -d
"{'name': 'Updated Data Source Name',
'description': 'This is cool info',
'refresh_interval': 14400}"

Example Response:

{ "meta": { "success": true, "status": 200 }, "data": { } }

Note: UseData Source Instances Data to update the specified data source with data.

DELETE /datasources/{id}


Description	Delete the data source associated with a specific data source ID.
Permissions	datasource.delete
Resource URL	https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1.0/datasources/{id}
Parameters	id={datasource id}

Example Request

DELETE https://app.klipfolio.com/api/1/datasources/0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef

Example Response

{
"data": {},
"meta": {
    "status": 200,
    "success": true
}
}