Execute SQL Query with Snowflake API on New Answers from Specific Users from Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) API

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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) trigger and Snowflake action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Answers from Specific Users trigger
1. Connect your Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) account
2. Select a Site
3. Select one or more Users
4. Configure timer
Configure the Execute SQL Query action
1. Connect your Snowflake account
2. Configure SQL Query
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Answers from Specific Users on Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)

Description:Emits an event when a new answer is posted by one of the specified users

Version:0.0.3

Key:stack_exchange-new-answers-from-users

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Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) Overview#

The Stack Exchange API provides programmatic access to Stack Overflow and other sites on the Stack Exchange network. With this API, you can fetch questions, answers, comments, user profiles, and other data that enables you to integrate Stack Exchange's wealth of knowledge and community activities into your own applications. Using Pipedream, you can harness this data to create custom workflows that react to events on Stack Exchange, compile reports, or even automate interactions, providing a powerful tool for developers, data analysts, and content creators.

Trigger Code#

const stack_exchange = require("../../stack_exchange.app");
const { DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL } = require("@pipedream/platform");

module.exports = {
  key: "stack_exchange-new-answers-from-users",
  name: "New Answers from Specific Users",
  description: "Emits an event when a new answer is posted by one of the specified users",
  version: "0.0.3",
  dedupe: "unique",
  type: "source",
  props: {
    stack_exchange,
    db: "$.service.db",
    siteId: {
      propDefinition: [
        stack_exchange,
        "siteId",
      ],
    },
    userIds: {
      propDefinition: [
        stack_exchange,
        "userIds",
        (c) => ({
          siteId: c.siteId,
        }),
      ],
    },
    timer: {
      type: "$.interface.timer",
      default: {
        intervalSeconds: DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL,
      },
    },
  },
  hooks: {
    async activate() {
      const fromDate = this._getCurrentEpoch();
      this.db.set("fromDate", fromDate);
    },
  },
  methods: {
    _getCurrentEpoch() {
      // The StackExchange API works with Unix epochs in seconds.
      return Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
    },
    generateMeta(data) {
      const {
        answer_id: id,
        owner: owner,
        creation_date: ts,
      } = data;
      const { display_name: username } = owner;
      const summary = `New answer from ${username}`;
      return {
        id,
        summary,
        ts,
      };
    },
  },
  async run() {
    const fromDate = this.db.get("fromDate");
    const toDate = this._getCurrentEpoch();
    const filter = "!SWKA(ozr4ec2cHE9JK"; // See https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/filters
    const searchParams = {
      fromDate,
      toDate,
      filter,
      sort: "creation",
      order: "asc",
      site: this.siteId,
    };

    const items = this.stack_exchange.answersFromUsers(this.userIds, searchParams);
    for await (const item of items) {
      const meta = this.generateMeta(item);
      this.$emit(item, meta);
    }

    this.db.set("fromDate", toDate);
  },
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)	`stack_exchange`	`app`	This component uses the Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) app.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
Site	`siteId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Users	`userIds`	`string[]`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`

Trigger Authentication#

Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

read_inboxno_expirywrite_accessprivate_info

About Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)#

Community-powered Q&A sites, including Stack Overflow

Action#

Execute SQL Query on Snowflake

Description:Execute a custom Snowflake query. See [our docs](https://pipedream.com/docs/databases/working-with-sql) to learn more about working with SQL in Pipedream.

Version:0.2.0

Key:snowflake-execute-sql-query

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Snowflake Overview#

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.

Action Code#

import snowflake from "../../snowflake.app.mjs";

export default {
  name: "Execute SQL Query",
  version: "0.2.0",
  key: "snowflake-execute-sql-query",
  description: "Execute a custom Snowflake query. See [our docs](https://pipedream.com/docs/databases/working-with-sql) to learn more about working with SQL in Pipedream.",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    snowflake,
    // eslint-disable-next-line pipedream/props-description
    sql: {
      type: "sql",
      auth: {
        app: "snowflake",
      },
      label: "SQL Query",
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const args = this.snowflake.executeQueryAdapter(this.sql);

    const data = await this.snowflake.executeQuery(args);

    $.export("$summary", `Returned ${data.length} ${data.length === 1
      ? "row"
      : "rows"}`);

    return data;
  },
};