Integrate the Hootsuite API with the Snowflake API

The Hootsuite API offers a variety of endpoints to automate social media management tasks such as scheduling posts, managing social content, and analyzing social media performance. By leveraging Pipedream, you can create serverless workflows to interact with the Hootsuite API; you can schedule posts at optimal times, aggregate metrics for reporting, or even respond to social media activity in real-time. Pipedream's platform allows the seamless integration of the Hootsuite API with hundreds of other apps to streamline social media workflows, monitor brand presence, and engage with audiences effectively.

Connect Hootsuite#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    hootsuite: {
      type: "app",
      app: "hootsuite",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1/me`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.hootsuite.$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
  },
})