The tap-exacttarget extractor pulls data from SalesForce Marketing Cloud that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.
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Getting Started
Prerequisites
If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:
Installation and configuration
-
Add the tap-exacttarget extractor to your
project using
:meltano add
-
Configure the tap-exacttarget
settings using
:meltano config
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Test that extractor settings are valid using
:meltano config
meltano add extractor tap-exacttarget --variant uptilab2
meltano config tap-exacttarget set --interactive
meltano config tap-exacttarget test
Next steps
Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:
If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.
Capabilities
The current capabilities for
tap-exacttarget
may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the
capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please
consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the
capabilities for this extractor.
This plugin has the following capabilities:
- catalog
- discover
You can
override these capabilities or specify additional ones
in your meltano.yml
by adding the capabilities
key.
Settings
The
tap-exacttarget
settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly
find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:
batch_size
client_id
client_secret
discover_data_extension
incremental_mode_send
offset_start_date
request_timeout
start_date
tenant_subdomain
You can also list these settings using
with the meltano config
list
subcommand:
meltano config tap-exacttarget list
You can
override these settings or specify additional ones
in your meltano.yml
by adding the settings
key.
Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.
Batch Size (batch_size)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_BATCH_SIZE
The batch size to request, default 2500.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set batch_size [value]
Client ID (client_id)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_CLIENT_ID
Your Salesforce Marketing Cloud/Exact Target client ID.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set client_id [value]
Client Secret (client_secret)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_CLIENT_SECRET
Your Salesforce Marketing Cloud/Exact Target client secret.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set client_secret [value]
Discover Data Extension (discover_data_extension)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_DISCOVER_DATA_EXTENSION
A boolean option whether to sync data extension.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set discover_data_extension [value]
Incremental Mode Send (incremental_mode_send)
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Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_INCREMENTAL_MODE_SEND
A setting to alter the replication method to incremental mode. This can also be done using the tap's stream metadata settings.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set incremental_mode_send [value]
Offset Start Date (Days) (offset_start_date)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_OFFSET_START_DATE
The amount of days to offset the start date or bookmarked date by. The value is an integer in days. Default, None.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set offset_start_date [value]
Request Timeout (request_timeout)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
The request timeout length, default 300.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set request_timeout [value]
Start Date (start_date)
-
Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_START_DATE
Determines how much historical data will be extracted. Please be aware that the larger the time period and amount of data, the longer the initial extraction can be expected to take.
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set start_date [value]
Tenant Subdomain (tenant_subdomain)
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Environment variable:
TAP_EXACTTARGET_TENANT_SUBDOMAIN
For S10+ accounts: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.noversion.mc-apis.meta/mc-apis/your-subdomain-tenant-specific-endpoints.html
Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:
meltano config tap-exacttarget set tenant_subdomain [value]
Authentication
Get credentials from Exacttarget. You'll need to:
- Create a Salesforce Marketing Cloud App
- Authenticate it to your Exacttarget account
- Get client ID and secret. Save these -- you'll need them in the next step.
- Find out if the sales force integration package is created (after 1st Aug, 2019) with only OAuth2 support
- Find your tenant subdomain {tenant-subdomin}.login.exacttarget.com
- Obtian a refresh token following the steps here
Stream Selection
If you select the subscriber stream, you MUST select list_subscriber as well. subscriber is replicated through list_subscriber.
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