Replicate Multiple Twitter Ads Accounts via the CData Sync CLI

CData Sync for Twitter Ads is a stand-alone application that provides solutions for a variety of replication scenarios such as replicating sandbox and production instances into your database. Both Sync for Windows and Sync for Java include a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easy to manage multiple Twitter Ads connections. In this article we show how to use the CLI to replicate multiple Twitter Ads accounts.

Configure Twitter Ads Connections

You can save connection and email notification settings in an XML configuration file. To replicate multiple Twitter Ads accounts, use multiple configuration files. Below is an example configuration to replicate Twitter Ads to SQLite:

Windows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
 <DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
 <DatabaseProvider>System.Data.SQLite</DatabaseProvider>
 <ConnectionString>InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;</ConnectionString>
 <ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
 <NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
 <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
 <TaskSchedulerStartTime>09:51</TaskSchedulerStartTime>
 <TaskSchedulerInterval>Never</TaskSchedulerInterval>
</CDataSync>

Java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
 <DatabaseProvider>org.sqlite.JDBC</DatabaseProvider>
 <ConnectionString>InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;</ConnectionString>
 <ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
 <NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
 <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
</CDataSync>

All tables require authentication. You must use OAuth to authenticate with Twitter. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with Twitter using the browser. For more information, refer to the OAuth section in the Help documentation.

Configure Queries for Each Twitter Ads Instance

Sync enables you to control replication with standard SQL. The REPLICATE statement is a high-level command that caches and maintains a table in your database. You can define any SELECT query supported by the Twitter Ads API. The statement below caches and incrementally updates a table of Twitter Ads data:

REPLICATE AdStats;

You can specify a file containing the replication queries you want to use to update a particular database. Separate replication statements with semicolons. The following options are useful if you are replicating multiple Twitter Ads accounts into the same database:

You can use a different table prefix in the REPLICATE SELECT statement:

REPLICATE PROD_AdStats SELECT * FROM AdStats 

Alternatively, you can use a different schema:

REPLICATE PROD.AdStats SELECT * FROM AdStats

Run Sync

After you have configured the connection strings and replication queries, you can run Sync with the following command-line options:

Windows

TwitterAdsSync.exe -g MyProductionTwitterAdsConfig.xml -f MyProductionTwitterAdsSync.sql

Java

java -Xbootclasspath/p:c:\sqlitejdbc.jar -jar TwitterAdsSync.jar -g MyProductionTwitterAdsConfig.xml -f MyProductionTwitterAdsSync.sql