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night brookBOT Jul 17, 2024, 7:39 PM

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spring yoke Jul 17, 2024, 7:40 PM

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Hello, BigQuery sounds like a third party connector?

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We really don't know anything about that. You'll want to reach out to that third party for help on what data they can provide you.

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That said, our API doesn't allow retrieval of specific Meter Events.

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So that really is likely the issue here.

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If you want to track those individually then you would need to ingest that data as the Meter Events are created

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Otherwise you take advantage of Meter Event Summaries: https://docs.stripe.com/api/billing/meter-event_summary

karmic grotto Jul 17, 2024, 7:43 PM

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yeah, ignore the bigquery part

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so if we wanted to do analysis of meter events, the data pipeline tools wont help?

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we need to hit the API a bunch?

spring yoke Jul 17, 2024, 7:44 PM

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I mean most data pipelines just ingest your data via the API

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So it isn't really any different.

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But if you are asking how to get data on the individual Meter Events themselves, then you would have to build that data ingestion into your integration

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As I said, you can't retrieve or list individual Meter Events

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We don't support that currently

karmic grotto Jul 17, 2024, 7:45 PM

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ok, then i guess its back the drawing board for this dashboard

spring yoke Jul 17, 2024, 7:46 PM

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Yeah I mean you could still build something like that with Meter Event Summaries

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Which will aggregate the Meter Events between a certain time period. See: https://docs.stripe.com/api/billing/meter-event_summary/list which allows you to list Meter Event Summaries

karmic grotto Jul 17, 2024, 7:47 PM

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i was hoping to be able to build something that didnt require a ton of api calls

spring yoke Jul 17, 2024, 7:47 PM

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Well you have to get the data somehow, so you either work with a third party or you build the integration using the API yourself... no real way around that

karmic grotto Jul 17, 2024, 7:48 PM

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we're using your data pipeline tool to get teh data dumped in a bucket

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in parquet form

spring yoke Jul 17, 2024, 7:48 PM

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Ah you are saying you use https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-data/access-data-in-warehouse

karmic grotto Jul 17, 2024, 7:49 PM

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yeah, we got the beta version that saves to google cloud

spring yoke Jul 17, 2024, 7:49 PM

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Yeah sorry, I know nothing about how that actually works or the data it provides as we only support direct use of the API here.

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You could ask our Support team via https://support.stripe.com/contact/login about this as there is a part of our Support team that focuses on Connectors/Data Pipeline

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But unfortunately I really don't know anything about it

karmic grotto Jul 17, 2024, 7:50 PM

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cool, i'll shoot them a line

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thanks

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