Fivetran Connect Card Generation Script in Node.JS

Easily generate Connect Cards from the comfort of home using NodeJS

How this works

We're going to setup a really simple script that will generate a connect card URL for Google Analytics. Want to try others? Check out the config examples here: https://fivetran.com/docs/rest-api/connectors/config

Prepare

• You'll need a Fivetran account and your key and secret that you can find in settings. Find out more in our getting started guide.
• Make sure you have node/npm installed: https://nodejs.org/en/
• Setup a destination in Fivetran (ie Snowflake, BigQuery, etc): https://fivetran.com/docs/destinations and get your destination ID from the bottom of the destination page details in your dashboard.

Setup

Create a .env file in the root of the project and add your key, secret, groupId in the below format:

API_KEY=
API_SECRET=
GROUP_ID=

Run npm install in the root to install the project dependencies.

Run the script

Open the folder for this repository in your commandline tool of choice and run the script. If you downloaded the folder to your desktop on a Mac, it would look like this:

• cd ~/Desktop/fivetran-connect-card-script-nodejs
• node index.js

You should see it return a URL. You can enter that URL into your browser window and you should see a valid Connect Card.

Learn more about Connect Cards and Powered by Fivetran

• Fivetran Connect Cards
• Powered by Fivetran QuickStart