Integrate the Box API with the Snowflake API

The Box API offers a playground for enhancing content management and collaboration within your cloud storage. With Pipedream, you can orchestrate Box's functionality to automate document handling, streamline approval flows, sync files across apps, and trigger actions based on file events. Think of Pipedream as the glue that allows you to connect Box with your tech stack, triggering workflows with new file uploads, comments, or when sharing settings change, to enhance productivity and minimize manual labor.

Connect Box#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    box: {
      type: "app",
      app: "box",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.box.com/2.0/users/me`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.box.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

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
  },
})