Hey everyone! I've been lurking for a bit and finally have something to share. 😊
I work for a small marketing agency, and we use this niche influencer platform called "SparkLift" for some of our campaigns. It's great, but we could never get its data into our main dashboard in Grok, which was a real headache for reporting. The built-in connectors didn't cover it, and I was manually exporting CSVs every week... not fun!
After a lot of trial and error (and some amazing help from the documentation and a few older threads here), I managed to build a custom connector. It pulls campaign metrics—like engagement rates and reach—directly from SparkLift's API into a Grok dataset. It's not perfect, but it works!
I mostly used the HTTP Request module and had to figure out their pagination system. The trickiest part was handling the authentication, since they use API keys with specific scopes.
I was wondering if anyone else has tried connecting to super niche platforms like this? I'd love to hear about your experiences, or if you have any tips for making these custom connectors more stable. Also, if anyone happens to use SparkLift, I'd be happy to share my basic setup!