This package models Pinterest Ads data from Fivetran’s connector. It uses data in the format described by this ERD.
This package enriches your Fivetran data by doing the following:
- Adds descriptions to tables and columns that are synced using Fivetran
- Adds column-level testing where applicable. For example, all primary keys are tested for uniqueness and non-null values.
- Models staging tables, which will be used in our transform package
Modelslink
This package contains staging models, designed to work simultaneously with our Pinterest Ads transformation package and our multi-platform Ad Reporting package. The staging models:
- Name columns consistently across all packages:
- Boolean fields are prefixed with
is_
orhas_
- Timestamps are appended with
_at
- ID primary keys are prefixed with the name of the table. For example, the campaign table’s ID column is renamed
campaign_id
.
- Boolean fields are prefixed with
Installation Instructionslink
Check dbt Hub for the latest installation instructions, or read the dbt docs for more information on installing packages.
Include in your packages.yml
packages:
- package: fivetran/pinterest_source
version: [">=0.5.0", "<0.6.0"]
Configurationlink
By default, this package will look for your Pinterest Ads data in the pinterest_ads
schema of your target database. If this is not where your Pinterest Ads data is, please add the following configuration to your dbt_project.yml
file:
...
config-version: 2
vars:
pinterest_database: your_database_name
pinterest_schema: your_schema_name
Passthrough Columnslink
This package allows for custom columns not defined within the stg_pinterest_ads__pin_promotion_report
model to be passed through. These custom columns may be applied using the pin_promotion_report_pass_through_metric
variable. To apply custom passthrough columns use the below format:
...
vars:
pin_promotion_report_pass_through_metric:
- 'cool_new_field'
- 'my_other_column'
- 'pass_this_through_too'
Changing the Build Schemalink
By default this package will build the Pinterest Ads staging models within a schema titled (<target_schema> + _stg_pinterest
) in your target database. If this is not where you would like your Pinterest Ads staging data to be written to, add the following configuration to your dbt_project.yml
file:
...
models:
pinterest_source:
+schema: my_new_schema_name # leave blank for just the target_schema
Database Supportlink
This package has been tested on BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres, and Databricks.
Databricks Dispatch Configurationlink
dbt v0.20.0
introduced a new project-level dispatch configuration that enables an “override” setting for all dispatched macros. If you are using a Databricks destination with this package you will need to add the below (or a variation of the below) dispatch configuration within your dbt_project.yml
. This is required in order for the package to accurately search for macros within the dbt-labs/spark_utils
then the dbt-labs/dbt_utils
packages respectively.
dispatch:
- macro_namespace: dbt_utils
search_order: ['spark_utils', 'dbt_utils']
Contributionslink
Additional contributions to this package are very welcome! Please create issues
or open PRs against main
. Check out
this post
on the best workflow for contributing to a package.
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