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Twitter Ads Reader

Note

This adapter is in preview and is available on Striim Developer only. See Striim Developer for more information.

Twitter Ads is paid promotional messages that businesses use to reach a wider audience on Twitter. They can help businesses: Increase brand visibility, Drive website traffic, Generate leads, and Attract new followers. The Twitter Ads Reader fetches or collects update details from a Twitter Ads account.

Feature summary

Feature

Supported?

Notes

Objects

Standard objects

✓

Custom objects

✓

Authentication

Basic authentication

Username and password

OAuth authentication

✓

Manual configuration based

Custom authentication methods

Not all methods may be supported

Operations

Automated mode

✓

Initial load

✓

Pull-based incremental load

✓

Push-based incremental load

Automated pipeline

Governance

Connection profile

Sherlock AI

Sentinel AI

Schema handling

Initial schema creation

✓

Works with supported targets

Schema evolution

Setup

Wizard template

Flow Designer

✓

Striim TQL

✓

Runtime

Resilience/recovery

✓

Parallel execution

Metrics

✓

Standard metrics

Supported authentication method

The Twitter Ads Reader supports OAuth authentication. Creating a connection requires creating a project and application in Twitter, generating an access token and secret, and setting the Striim connection properties.

  1. Go to Twitter Ads and sign in.

  2. Create a new project in the Developer Portal.

  3. At the project you just created, choose Add App.

  4. Navigate to the application you just created.

  5. Go to Keys and tokens.

  6. At the Access Token and Secret option, click Generate.

See Access Tokens and Twitter Ads OAuth Info in the Twitter documentation.

Supported objects

The following are the supported objects for reading from Twitter Ads:

  • AdAccounts

  • AdActiveEntities

  • AdCampaignAudienceReach

  • AdCampaigns

  • AdCards

  • AdFundingInstruments

  • AdFundingInstrumentsAudienceReach

  • AdLineItems

  • AdPromotedTweets

  • AdStats

  • AdTweets

Twitter Ads Reader properties

Property

Type

Default value

Notes

Access token

Password

The access token for connecting using OAuth. The access token is retrieved from the OAuth server as part of the authentication process. It has a server-dependent timeout and can be reused between requests.

Client ID

String

The client ID assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.

Client secret

Password

The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.

Connection pool size

Integer

20

Specifies the maximum number of active connections.

Exclude tables

String

A list of tables excluded from read operations. Typically used to create a list of exceptions when the Tables property includes wildcards. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors.

Incremental load marker

String

The incremental load marker is a unique incremental column in each object used for incremental load. When no marker is specified, tables are resynced at each polling interval.

Specify the name of the column that contains the start position value. This column must meet the following criteria:

  • It should have an integer or timestamp data type (for example, a creation timestamp or an employee ID).

  • The values must be unique and continuously increasing to ensure proper incremental reading.

Migrate schema

Boolean

False

Only available in Initial Load or Automated mode. Set to True to enable initial schema migration, which propagates the object schema from the source to the target.

Mode

Select list:

  • Automated mode

  • Initial load

  • Incremental load

Automated

Automated mode applies incremental updates to objects that support incremental load and performs full resyncs for objects that do not support incremental load.

Polling interval

Integer

5m

Specifies an interval as an integer followed by a unit. Supported units are days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), or seconds (s). The reader polls the source at the specified interval.

Start Position

String

%=-1

Value of the incremental load marker that defines the initial reading position.

Tables

String

A semicolon-delimited (;) list of objects to read from the source. Supports the % wildcard. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors. Do not modify this property when recovery is enabled for the application.

Thread pool count

Integer

10

The number of parallel running threads. The default value of zero specifies single-threaded operation.

When the value of the thread pool counter is higher than the connection pool size, large data ingestion operations can cause the app to halt. Since best performance is achieved when using one thread for each table being synced, increasing the size of the connection pool to match the number of threads in use is a performance best practice.