With the Sprout connector you can pull analytics of owned social profiles you’ve
integrated with Sprout. Profile-level data is shown in PST and Post-level data is shown according
to the social channels own timezone. Sprout Social is a social channel connector and the data
stream type is social objects and Lifetime.
Required Editions
| User Permissions Needed |
| To create an API data stream: |
Admin |
To create a Sprout Social API data stream, you need:
- Provisioned Sprout account for API use.
- Access token— found in the sprout account settings dialog.
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On the Import tab, expand Data
Streams.
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Click Add New.
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Select Sprout Social.
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To add a new data source authentication, click Add New and enter your API key.
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Set the duration for the initial data fetch.
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To change the mapping, click Mapping. You can also access mapping by clicking Map to Model
at the bottom of the Create New Stream page.
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To define advanced settings for the data stream, at the bottom of the Create New Stream
page, click Advanced Settings.
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Click Create.
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Quality check your data.
- Create a report in Sprout Social for the selected date range.
- Process the relevant data stream in Marketing Cloud Intelligence Data Pipelines filtered to the same date
range.
- Create an identical report or pivot table in Marketing Cloud Intelligence Data Pipelines with the same
date range, dimensions, and measurements.
- Compare and make sure that the measurement totals are aligned.
