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# Data API

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### What is the Data API?

Circle's Data API provides a comprehensive set of events to track actions and changes across your Circle account, from members and engagement to courses and events.&#x20;

[See endpoints](https://app.circle.so/data_api/docs)

### Who is this for?

Available as an add-on, the Data API is invaluable for analysts, product/course managers, and business leaders looking to analyze their business.

By bringing your Circle data into your own data warehouse, the Data API provides the ability to develop custom reports and combine it with other sources for a fuller view of your business.

### Key benefits

1. **Up-to-date analytics**: Track member actions and updates across Circle as they happen, in your own data stack.
2. **Enhanced reporting**: Build custom reporting and dashboards using your own BI tool.
3. **Custom Integrations**: Integrate your Circle data with other tools and services to gain a deeper understanding of your business.

### What can I do with it that wasn't possible before?

Without the Data API, you can access your Circle data in two ways:

1. **In-product dashboards:** these provide an excellent standard set of insights to help you understand performance and stay on top of major trends. However, many advanced customers need more depth and flexibility to track metrics that are specific to their business and objectives. For these customers, until now, the only other option has been to take CSV exports of their data
2. **CSV Exports:** this option gives you more control and allows you to study your data at an extremely granular level. However, CSV exports can’t be automated and require manual work to ingest this data for analysis over and over again, and they don’t cover all the use cases that the Data API is designed for.

Some of our advanced users with programming skills or access to developers on their team also use our Admin API to extract some data. However, the main purpose of these API is to manage your Circle account and automate actions, not to perform analysis on your Circle data. To repurpose the Admin API to produce data is cumbersome, and requires clever scripting at the customer’s end to get around its limitations.

To address this need and supercharge your analytics, we've designed the Data API to give you a high-throughput, purpose-driven interface to all your Circle data, which you can use to plug into your own data warehouse with an ETL tool, such as Airbyte.

### Requirements

#### **Technical Requirements**

We recommend using the Data API to store data in a Data Warehouse where you can transform it into any desired data models and metrics for tracking and analysis. We have made the API compatible with ETL tools such as Airbyte (recommended) or Fivetran. A typical set up this API could work as follows:

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**Expertise required**

On your end, you'll need a Data Analyst or an individual who can connect the Data API via an ETL tool and store it in a data warehouse. Once connected, they will need to write SQL queries on top of the gathered data to generate custom metrics and insights.

### How do I get access?

If you're interested, please use this link to request a time to speak with our sales team:

&#x20;👉  [Schedule a Meeting to Learn about the Data API](https://circle.so/plus-sales)

### [See docs](https://app.circle.so/data_api/docs)