Snowplow CLI

snowplow-cli means to bring Snowplow Console into the command line

Snowplow CLI is available for Snowplow BDP clients

Documentation

Documentation for snowplow-cli is available over here

Installation

snowplow-cli can be installed with homebrew

brew install snowplow/taps/snowplow-cli
snowplow-cli --help

For systems where homebrew is not available binaries for multiple platforms can be found in releases

Example installation for linux_x86_64 using curl

curl -L -o snowplow-cli https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-cli/releases/latest/download/snowplow-cli_linux_x86_64
chmod u+x snowplow-cli
./snowplow-cli --help

Configuration

Snowplow CLI requires a configuration, to use most of its functionality

Create a config file

• Unix/Darwin: mkdir -p ~/.config/snowplow && touch $HOME/.config/snowplow/snowplow.yml

Minimal configuration

You will need to provide the console organization id, API key and API secret. You can find the instructions on how to get the API key and secret in the documentation

Your snowplow.yml content should look like following

console:
  org-id: ********-****-****-****-************
  api-key-id: ********-****-****-****-************
  api-key: ********-****-****-****-************