wheelhousedev/tap-taboola

A Singer tap for extracting data from the Taboola API

tap-taboola

Author: Connor McArthur ([email protected])

This is a Singer tap that produces JSON-formatted data following the Singer spec.

This tap:

• Pulls raw data from Taboola's Backstage API
• Extracts the following resources:
  • Campaigns
  • Campaign Reports, specifically the campaign_day_breakdown report
• Outputs the schema for each resource
• Incrementally pulls data based on the input state

Quick start

1. Install

   > git clone [email protected]:fishtown-analytics/tap-taboola.git
   > cd tap-taboola
   > pip install .

2. Get credentials from Taboola:

   You'll need:

   • Your account id (if you aren't sure, contact your account manager)
   • A Taboola username and password with access to the API
   • A client ID and secret for the API (your account manager can give you these)

3. Create the config file.

   There is a template you can use at config.json.example, just copy it to config.json in the repo root and insert your credentials.

   • account_id, your Taboola account ID (looks like taboola­demo­advertiser).
   • username, your Taboola username -- used to generate an API access key.
   • password, the Taboola password to go along with username.
   • client_id, your Taboola client ID. You should reach out to your account manager to get this.
   • client_secret, your Taboola client secret. You should reach out to your account manager to get this.
   • start_date, the date from which you want to sync data, in the format 2017-03-10.

4. Run the application.

   tap-taboola --config config.json

Gotchas

• campaigns: Taboola pushes null for start_date and 9999-12-31 for end_date sometimes. This tap converts null dates to 9999-12-31 for consistency. I don't know what that signifies at present. - @cmcarthur

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