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SurveyMonkey Reader

Note

This adapter is in preview and is available on Striim Developer only. See Striim Developer for more information.

SurveyMonkey is an online survey platform that allows users to create, distribute, and analyze surveys. It provides tools for collecting feedback, measuring customer satisfaction, and deriving insights to support data-driven decisions. Striim’s SurveyMonkey Reader converts survey data into relational tables, enabling real-time migration of survey data to relational databases or data warehouses. This integration improves reporting, facilitates advanced analytics, and enables deeper analysis of survey responses and customer feedback.

Feature summary

Feature

Supported?

Notes

Objects

Standard objects

✓

Custom objects

✓

Authentication

Basic authentication

Username and password

OAuth authentication

✓

Manual configuration based

Custom authentication methods

Not all methods may be supported

Operations

Automated mode

✓

Initial load

✓

Pull-based incremental load

✓

Push-based incremental load

Automated pipeline

Governance

Connection profile

Sherlock AI

Sentinel AI

Schema handling

Initial schema creation

✓

Works with supported targets

Schema evolution

Setup

Wizard template

Flow Designer

✓

Striim TQL

✓

Runtime

Resilience/recovery

✓

Parallel execution

Metrics

✓

Standard metrics

Supported authentication method

The SurveyMonkey Reader supports OAuth authentication using an access token. Creating a connection requires creating an OAuth application, obtaining the OAuth access token, and setting the connection properties in Striim.

To create an OAuth application in SurveyMonkey:

  1. Open the SurveyMonkey developer console at https://developer.surveymonkey.com/.

  2. Choose MyApps.

  3. Log in to your SurveyMonkey account.

  4. Choose Create an App. Specify an application nickname, and specify whether the application should be private or public. (Public application use requires an Advantage-level plan; private application use requires a Premier-level plan.)

  5. Choose Settings. The console displays the application settings for Client ID, Secret, and Access Token.Set the Redirect URL to a web page where the user should be redirected after they authorize your application.

  6. Select the scopes required by your application. The driver requires the following scopes:

    • View Users

    • View Surveys

    • View Responses

    • View Response Details

    • View Contacts

    • View Collectors

Supported objects

The following are the supported objects for reading from SurveyMonkey:

  • CollectorMessages

  • CollectorRecipients

  • CollectorStats

  • Collectors

  • ContactLists

  • Contacts

  • Pages

  • RollupQuestions

  • Rollups

  • SurveyQuestions

  • SurveyResponses

  • Surveys

SurveyMonkey Reader properties

Property

Type

Default value

Notes

Access token

Password

The Access Token of the SurveyMonkey application.

You can create an OAuth application and find the access token in the App's Settings page. See Supported authentication method.

Datacenter

String

The originating datacenter of the SurveyMonkey account. It will determine the API access URL to use during authentication and data retrieval.

Connection pool size

Integer

20

Specifies the maximum number of active connections.

Exclude tables

String

A list of tables excluded from read operations. Typically used to create a list of exceptions when the Tables property includes wildcards. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors.

Incremental load marker

String

The incremental load marker is a unique incremental column in each object used for incremental load. When no marker is specified, tables are resynced at each polling interval.

Specify the name of the column that contains the start position value. This column must meet the following criteria:

  • It should have an integer or timestamp data type (for example, a creation timestamp or an employee ID).

  • The values must be unique and continuously increasing to ensure proper incremental reading.

Migrate schema

Boolean

False

Only available in Initial Load or Automated mode. Set to True to enable initial schema migration, which propagates the object schema from the source to the target.

Mode

Select list:

  • Automated mode

  • Initial load

  • Incremental load

Automated

Automated mode applies incremental updates to objects that support incremental load and performs full resyncs for objects that do not support incremental load.

Polling interval

Integer

5m

Specifies an interval as an integer followed by a unit. Supported units are days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), or seconds (s). The reader polls the source at the specified interval.

Start Position

String

%=-1

Value of the incremental load marker that defines the initial reading position.

Tables

String

A semicolon-delimited (;) list of objects to read from the source. Supports the % wildcard. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors. Do not modify this property when recovery is enabled for the application.

Thread pool count

Integer

10

The number of parallel running threads. The default value of zero specifies single-threaded operation.

When the value of the thread pool counter is higher than the connection pool size, large data ingestion operations can cause the app to halt. Since best performance is achieved when using one thread for each table being synced, increasing the size of the connection pool to match the number of threads in use is a performance best practice.