Build Yahoo! Ads-Connected Visualizations in datapine

datapine is a browser-based business intelligence platform. When paired with the CData Connect Cloud, you get access to your Yahoo! Ads data directly from your datapine visualizations and dashboards. This article describes connecting to Yahoo! Ads in CData Connect Cloud and building a simple Yahoo! Ads-connected visualization in datapine.

CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL Server interface for Yahoo! Ads, allowing you to query data from Yahoo! Ads without replicating the data to a natively supported database. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to Yahoo! Ads, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested Yahoo! Ads data quickly.

Configure Yahoo! Ads Connectivity for datapine

Connectivity to Yahoo! Ads from datapine is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Yahoo! Ads data from datapine, we start by creating and configuring a Yahoo! Ads connection.

1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection

2. Select "Yahoo! Ads" from the Add Connection panel

3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Yahoo! Ads.

   Authenticating with Yahoo! Ads

   Yahoo! Ads supports OAuth authentication. To authenticate with Yahoo! Ads, set the following connection properties:

   • (Optional) Enter the Search Ads Account Id. If left blank, this defaults to the Authenticated user's primary account.
   • (Optional) Enter the Display Ads Account Id. If left blank, this defaults to the Authenticated user's primary account.

   Click Sign in to connect securely through OAuth. This action opens the Yahoo! Ads sign-in page in a new tab.

   Log in to your Yahoo! Ads account and provide the requested permissions (if applicable).

   
4. Click Create & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Yahoo! Ads Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

Add a Personal Access Token

If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.

1. Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
2. On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
3. Give your PAT a name and click Create.

4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

Connecting to Yahoo! Ads from datapine

Once you configure your connection to Yahoo! Ads in Connect Cloud, you are ready to connect to Yahoo! Ads from datapine.

1. Log into datapine
2. Click Connect to navigate to the "Connect" page
3. Select MS SQL Server as the data source
4. In the Integration step, fill in the connection properties and click "Save and Proceed"
   • Set the Internal Name
   • Set Database Name to the name of the connection we just configured (e.g. YahooAds1)
   • Set Host / IP to "tds.cdata.com"
   • Set Username to your Connect Cloud username (e.g. user@mydomain.com)
   • Set Password to the corresponding PAT
   • Set Database Port to "14333"
   
5. In the Data Schema step, select the tables and fields to visualize and click "Save and Proceed"
6. In the References step, define any relationships between your selected tables and click "Save and Proceed"
7. In the Data Transfer step, click "Go to Analyzer"

Visualize Yahoo! Ads Data in datapine

After connecting to CData Connect Cloud, you are ready to visualize your Yahoo! Ads data in datapine. Simply select the dimensions and measures you wish to visualize!

Having connect to Yahoo! Ads from datapine, you are now able to visualize and analyze real-time Yahoo! Ads data no matter where you are. To get live data access to 100+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from datapine, try CData Connect Cloud today!