Google Search Console

Guide to integrate your Google Search Console with Sprinkle

Datasource Concepts

Before setting up the datasource, learn about datasource concepts here

Step by Step Guide

STEP-1: Configure Connection

To learn about Connection, refer here

• Log into Sprinkle application

• Navigate to Datasources -> Connections Tab -> New Connection ->

• Select Google Search Console

• Provide all the mandatory details

  • Name: Name to identify this connection

  • Connect to Google

• After pressing Connect to Google, you will see authorise screen to allow permissions required for sprinkle to read data. Press Allow

• Test Connection

• Create

STEP-2: Configure Datasource

To learn about datasource, refer here

• Navigate to Datasources -> Datasources Tab -> Add ->

• Select Google Search Console

• Provide the name -> Create

• Connection Tab:

  • From the drop-down, select the name of connection created in STEP-2

  • Update

STEP-3: Create Dataset

Datasets Tab: To learn about Dataset, refer here. Add Dataset for each report/dataset that you want to integrate, providing following details

• Report Type (Required) :

  • Sites

  • Sitemaps

    • Site URL: Select from drop-down

  • SearchAnalytics

    • Site URL: Select from drop-down

    • Dimensions: Search Appearance dimension should be queried alone whereas other dimensions can be queried together.

    • Start Date: date from which the data needs to be pulled and ingested, in the YYYY-MM-DD format

    • Search Type: Select from Web, Images, Videos

• Destination Schema (Required) : Data warehouse schema where the table will be ingested into

• Destination Table name (Required) : It is the table name to be created on the warehouse. If not given, sprinkle will create like ds_<datasourcename>_<tablename>

• Destination Create Table Clause: Provide additional clauses to warehouse-create table queries such as clustering, partitioning, and more, useful for optimizing DML statements. Learn more on how to use this field.
• Create

STEP-4: Run and schedule Ingestion

In the Ingestion Jobs tab:

• Trigger the Job, using Run button

• To schedule, enable Auto-Run. Change the frequency if required

Dataset Fields

Sites

• siteurl

• permissionlevel

Sitemaps

• path

• lastsubmitted

• ispending

• issitemapsindex

• warnings

• errors

SearchAnalytics

• event_date

• clicks

• impressions

• ctr

• position