Integrate the Formstack Documents API with the Snowflake API

Setup the Formstack Documents API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Snowflake API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Formstack Documents and Snowflake remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Overview of Formstack Documents#

The Formstack Documents API gives you the power to automate document creation and delivery, making it simple to generate custom PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and more, from your data. By leveraging the API within Pipedream, you can integrate dynamic document generation into your workflows. You might merge data from various sources, populate templates with real-time data, and send documents directly to customers or team members.

Connect Formstack Documents#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    formstack_documents: {
      type: "app",
      app: "formstack_documents",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.webmerge.me/api/documents`,
      auth: {
        username: `${this.formstack_documents.$auth.api_key}`,
        password: `${this.formstack_documents.$auth.api_secret}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

Overview of Snowflake#

Snowflake offers a cloud database and related tools to help developers create robust, secure, and scalable data warehouses. See Snowflake's Key Concepts & Architecture.

Getting Started

1. Create a user, role and warehouse in Snowflake

Snowflake recommends you create a new user, role, and warehouse when you integrate a third-party tool like Pipedream. This way, you can control permissions via the user / role, and separate Pipedream compute and costs with the warehouse. You can do this directly in the Snowflake UI.

We recommend you create a read-only account if you only need to query Snowflake. If you need to insert data into Snowflake, add permissions on the appropriate objects after you create your user.

2. Enter those details in Pipedream

Visit https://pipedream.com/accounts. Click the button to Connect an App. Enter the required Snowflake account data.

You'll only need to connect your account once in Pipedream. You can connect this account to multiple workflows to run queries against Snowflake, insert data, and more.

3. Build your first workflow

Visit https://pipedream.com/new to build your first workflow. Pipedream workflows let you connect Snowflake with 1,000+ other apps. You can trigger workflows on Snowflake queries, sending results to Slack, Google Sheets, or any app that exposes an API. Or you can accept data from another app, transform it with Python, Node.js, Go or Bash code, and insert it into Snowflake.

Learn more at Pipedream University.

Connect Snowflake#

import { promisify } from 'util'
import snowflake from 'snowflake-sdk'

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    snowflake: {
      type: "app",
      app: "snowflake",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const connection = snowflake.createConnection({
      ...this.snowflake.$auth,
      application: "PIPEDREAM_PIPEDREAM",
    })
    const connectAsync = promisify(connection.connect)
    await connectAsync()
    
    async function connExecuteAsync(options) {
      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        connection.execute({
          ...options,
          complete: function(err, stmt, rows) {
            if (err) {
              reject(err)
            } else {
              resolve({stmt, rows})
            }
          }
        })
      })
    }
    
    // See https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/nodejs-driver-use.html#executing-statements
    const { rows } = await connExecuteAsync({
      sqlText: `SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()`,
    })
    return rows
  },
})

Formstack Documents