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The Snapchat Ads ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Snapchat Ads, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Snapchat Ads data like you would a database - read, write, and update Snapchat Ads Accounts, Ads, Campaigns, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

Query Snapchat Ads Data through ODBC in Node.js



Use node-odbc to execute SQL queries against Snapchat Ads data from Node.js.

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that allows you to run JavaScript code outside of a browser. With the CData ODBC Driver for Snapchat Ads, you can access live Snapchat Ads data from Node.js apps and scripts. In this article, we walk through installing node-odbc and the required tools to create a simple Node.js app with access to live Snapchat Ads data.

With built-in optimized data processing, the CData ODBC Driver offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Snapchat Ads data in Node.js. When you issue complex SQL queries from Node.js to Snapchat Ads, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Snapchat Ads and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connecting to Snapchat Ads Data

If you have not already done so, provide values for the required connection properties in the data source name (DSN). You can use the built-in Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to configure the DSN. This is also the last step of the driver installation. See the "Getting Started" chapter in the help documentation for a guide to using the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure a DSN.

You will need to create an OAuth application to connect to Snapchat Ads. See the online Help documentation for an authentication guide.

Additionally, you can optionally set AccountId to provide a default Account ID (meaning it won't need to be manually provided in the WHERE clause). If the AccountId is not specified, the first account in the Accounts view is used.

Building node-odbc

In order to connect to Snapchat Ads through the CData ODBC Driver, you need to build node-odbc manually (after installing the required tools).

Installing the Required Tools

The following commands install the tools required to build node-odbc (note the -g parameter, which installs the tools globally).

npm i -g windows-build-tools
npm i -g node-gyp

Building node-odbc

After installing the required tools, create a directory for the Node.js app and install odbc (which builds the binary for us to use in our Node.js script).

mkdir nodeodbc
cd nodeodbc
npm i -g node

Querying Snapchat Ads from Node.js

With the ODBC Driver installed, a DSN Configured, and node-odbc built, we are ready to query live Snapchat Ads data from a Node.js app. The sample code below connects to a specific DSN and queries the Campaigns table.

myscript.js

const odbc = require('odbc');

async function querySnapchatAds() {
    const connection = await odbc.connect(`DSN=CData SnapchatAds Source`);
    const data = await connection.query('SELECT AccountId, Name FROM Campaigns');
    console.log(data);
}

querySnapchatAds();

Once you write the app, use node to execute the script:

node myscript.js

Download a free, 30-day trial of the CData ODBC Driver for Snapchat Ads and start working with your live Snapchat Ads data in Node.js. Reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions.