


Notice Credentials, OAuth consent screen… we will these soon. Highlight APIs & Services, out pops Library. Google is providing you with tools to access certain things but for our end goal, remember we want to access Google Sheets & Google Analytics.Ĭlick the menu button to the left of the Google APIs logo.

The API we find in the library can be activated and overall monitored here. Turning on an API is another way of saying what Google calls “enabling.” None of this is explained in the product today. To get KNIME working, we need to begin our steps by turning on certain APIs. Opening the Google API Library is the first step to enabling APIs pertaining to your user account. Opening Google API Library to enable certain libraries We are going to call our project, “test-KNIME-example”…Ĭlick create! You should see an empty dashboard. With that said, a gmail account will work too! A big thanks to the Knime community for the help! Excuse any errors in the blog related to needing a gsuite. I’m using my gsuite organization email as the google user, aka on feedback from community, having a gsuite account is not necessary to utilize the service. The title of your project name will be used in later steps, save jokes for later, as this will be user/client facing in later steps. Ĭall your project name something relative to whomever you’re helping. Use this link to begin creating a new project for your KNIME API solution. I get lost in this blog, and due to feedback from knime community, the blog has a few updates that can be skipped! Thanks Setting up a new project on Google APIs Note it’s a lot of clicking around, easy to get lost, there’s a lot of things that can keep your KNIME workflow from running, so stay to the path and follow instructions below. Jump through whatever hoops google requests as you’re being introduced to their google cloud platform solution. At the end of the blog, I quickly explain how to build out the Google analytics pieces within KNIME & Google Analytics. However, in this setup, we will include Google Analytics in the process. There are more reasons, however lets focus on gaining access to these 2 data resources.ĭue to length of setting up google API and screenshots for every step, I’ve decided to focus the blog on connecting to Google sheets data only. Setting up KNIME Google Authentication (API Key) is essential to doing two important things in the KNIME Analytics platform.
