tap-youtube-analytics

Python Version: 3.7.4

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

This tap:

• Pulls raw data from the following Youtube APIs:
  • Youtube Reporting API
  • Youtube Data API
• Youtube Reporting API resources
  • jobs
  • reports
  • report_types
  • To generate Reports:
    • Channel Reports
    • Content Owner Reports
• Youtube Data API resources
  • channels
  • playlists
  • playlist_items
  • videos
• Outputs the schema for each resource
• Incrementally pulls data based on the input state

Authentication

The Youtube Analytics Authentication Google Doc provides instructions show how to configure an API app, generate an API key (client_id, client_secret), authenticate and generate a refresh_token, and prepare your tap config.json with the necessary parameters.

Quick Start

1. Install

   Clone this repository, and then install using setup.py. We recommend using a virtualenv:

   > virtualenv -p python3 venv
   > source venv/bin/activate
   > python setup.py install
   OR
   > cd .../tap-youtube-analytics
   > pip install .

2. Dependent libraries The following dependent libraries were installed.

   > pip install target-json
   > pip install target-stitch
   > pip install singer-tools
   > pip install singer-python

   • singer-tools
   • target-stitch

3. Create your tap's config.json file. Include the client_id, client_secret, refresh_token, channel_ids (unique channel IDs in a comma delimited list), start_date (UTC format), and user_agent (tap name with the api user email address).

   {
       "client_id": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
       "client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
       "refresh_token": "YOUR_REFRESH_TOKEN",
       "channel_ids": "CHANNEL_ID_1, CHANNEL_ID_2, CHANNEL_ID_3ß",
       "start_date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
       "user_agent": "tap-youtube-analytics <[email protected]>"
   }

   Optionally, also create a state.json file. currently_syncing is an optional attribute used for identifying the last object to be synced in case the job is interrupted mid-stream. The next run would begin where the last job left off. Only the performance_reports uses a bookmark. The date-time bookmark is stored in a nested structure based on the endpoint, site, and sub_type.

   {
     "currently_syncing": "sitemaps",
     "bookmarks": {
       "playlist_items": "2020-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
       "videos": "2020-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
       "channel_basic": "2020-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
       "channel_province": "2020-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
       "channel_traffic_source": "2020-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z"
     }
   }

4. Run the Tap in Discovery Mode This creates a catalog.json for selecting objects/fields to integrate:

   tap-youtube-analytics --config config.json --discover > catalog.json

   See the Singer docs on discovery mode here.

5. Run the Tap in Sync Mode (with catalog) and write out to state file

   For Sync mode:

   > tap-youtube-analytics --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

   To load to json files to verify outputs:

   > tap-youtube-analytics --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | target-json > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

   To pseudo-load to Stitch Import API with dry run:

   > tap-youtube-analytics --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | target-stitch --config target_config.json --dry-run > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

6. Test the Tap

   While developing the Google Search Console tap, the following utilities were run in accordance with Singer.io best practices: Pylint to improve code quality:

   > pylint tap_youtube_analytics -d missing-docstring -d logging-format-interpolation -d too-many-locals -d too-many-arguments

   Pylint test resulted in the following score:

   Your code has been rated at 9.87/10

   To check the tap and verify working:

   > tap-youtube-analytics --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | singer-check-tap > state.json
   > tail -1 state.json > state.json.tmp && mv state.json.tmp state.json

   Check tap resulted in the following:

     TBD

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