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How to load data from Google Search Console to DuckDB

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Google Search Console data into DuckDB within minutes.

TL;DR

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Google Search Console as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up DuckDB as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a Google service that helps site owners get the most out of their website. It offers ways for site owners to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve a site’s position on Google Search. It also provides reports and tools for measuring a site’s Search performance and traffic; learning what search queries lead to a site; optimizing website content; monitoring, testing, and tracking AMP pages; and much more, including the ability to test a site’s mobile usability.

What is DuckDB

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system. It has strong support for SQL. DuckDB is borrowing the SQLite shell implementation. Each database is a single file on disk. It’s analogous to “ SQLite for analytical (OLAP) workloads” (direct comparison on the SQLite vs DuckDB paper here), whereas SQLite is for OLTP ones. But it can handle vast amounts of data locally. It’s the smaller, lighter version of Apache Druid and other OLAP technologies.

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Prerequisites

  1. A Google Search Console account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A DuckDB account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Google Search Console and DuckDB, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Google Search Console to DuckDB, it extracts data from Google Search Console using the source connector, converts it into a format DuckDB can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into DuckDB via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Google Search Console data for advanced analytics and insights within DuckDB, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Google Search Console as a source connector

1. Go to the Google Search Console website and log in to your account.

2. Click on the gear icon in the top right corner and select "Settings".

3. Click on "Users and permissions" in the left-hand menu.

4. Click on the blue "Add user" button.

5. Enter the email address associated with your Airbyte account and select "Full" as the permission level.

6. Click "Add" to save the user.

7. Go to the Airbyte dashboard and click on "Sources" in the left-hand menu.

8. Click on the "New Source" button in the top right corner.

9. Select "Google Search Console" from the list of available sources.

10. Enter a name for the source and click "Next".

11. Enter the email address associated with your Google Search Console account and click "Next".

12. Enter the password for your Google Search Console account and click "Next".

13. Select the website or app you want to connect to Airbyte and click "Next".

14. Review the settings and click "Create" to save the source.

15. Wait for Airbyte to sync your data from Google Search Console.

Step 2: Set up DuckDB as a destination connector

1. Open the Airbyte platform and navigate to the "Destinations" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
2. Click on the "Add Destination" button located in the top right corner of the screen.
3. Scroll down the list of available destinations until you find "DuckDB" and click on it.
4. Fill in the required information for your DuckDB database, including the host, port, database name, username, and password.
5. Test the connection to ensure that the information you provided is correct and that Airbyte can successfully connect to your DuckDB database.
6. If the connection is successful, click on the "Save" button to save your DuckDB destination connector.
7. You can now use this connector to transfer data from your source connectors to your DuckDB database. Simply select the DuckDB destination connector when setting up your data integration pipelines in Airbyte.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Google Search Console data to DuckDB

Once you've successfully connected Google Search Console as a data source and DuckDB as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Google Search Console from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose DuckDB from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Google Search Console objects you want to import data from towards DuckDB. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Google Search Console to DuckDB according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your DuckDB data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Google Search Console data.

Use Cases to transfer your Google Search Console data to DuckDB

Integrating data from Google Search Console to DuckDB provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: DuckDB’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Google Search Console data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Google Search Console alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Google Search Console, syncing to DuckDB allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Google Search Console has limits on historical data. Syncing data to DuckDB allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: DuckDB provides robust data security features. Syncing Google Search Console data to DuckDB ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: DuckDB can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Google Search Console data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Google Search Console data in DuckDB, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Google Search Console provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to DuckDB, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Google Search Console table that needs to be converted to a DuckDB table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Google Search Console account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure DuckDB as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Google Search Console to DuckDB after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

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Frequently Asked Questions

What data can you extract from Google Search Console?

Google Search Console's API provides access to a wide range of data related to a website's performance in Google search results. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through the API:  

1. Search Analytics: This category includes data related to search queries, impressions, clicks, and click-through rates.  

2. Sitemaps: This category includes data related to the sitemap of a website, such as the number of URLs submitted, indexed, and any errors encountered.  

3. Crawl Errors: This category includes data related to any crawl errors encountered by Google while crawling a website, such as 404 errors, server errors, and soft 404 errors.  

4. Security Issues: This category includes data related to any security issues detected by Google, such as malware or phishing.

5. Indexing: This category includes data related to the indexing status of a website, such as the number of pages indexed and any indexing errors encountered.  

6. Structured Data: This category includes data related to the structured data markup on a website, such as the number of pages with structured data and any errors encountered.  

7. Mobile Usability: This category includes data related to the mobile usability of a website, such as the number of pages with mobile usability issues and any errors encountered.

What data can you transfer to DuckDB?

You can transfer a wide variety of data to DuckDB. This usually includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data like transaction records, log files, JSON data, CSV files, and more, allowing robust, scalable data integration and analysis.

What are top ETL tools to transfer data from Google Search Console to DuckDB?

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Google Search Console to DuckDB include:

  • Airbyte
  • Fivetran
  • Stitch
  • Matillion
  • Talend Data Integration

These tools help in extracting data from Google Search Console and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into DuckDB and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.