Connecting to Drift

You can authenticate to Drift using OAuth authentication.

Using OAuth Authentication

You must first register an application here: https://dev.drift.com. Your app will be assigned a client ID and a client secret. Set these in your connection string via the OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret properties. More information on setting up an OAuth application can be found at https://devdocs.drift.com/docs/.

After setting the following options in the ProfileSettings connection property, you are ready to connect:

AuthScheme: Set this to OAuth.
OAuthClientId: Set this to the Client Id that is specified in your app settings.
OAuthClientSecret: Set this to Client Secret that is specified in your app settings.
CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URI you specified in your app settings.
InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH. You can use InitiateOAuth to manage the process to obtain the OAuthAccessToken.

Example connection string

Profile=C:\profiles\Drift.apip;Authscheme=OAuth;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url;

Connection Properties

The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

Property	Description
AuthScheme	The scheme used for authentication. Accepted entries are None or OAuth. Allowed values are: BASIC, NONE, NTLM, OAUTH, APIKEY, OAUTH_CLIENT
CallbackURL	Identifies the URL users return to after authenticating to API via OAuth (Custom OAuth applications only).
OAuthClientId	Specifies the client ID (also known as the consumer key) assigned to your custom OAuth application. This ID is required to identify the application to the OAuth authorization server during authentication.
OAuthClientSecret	Specifies the client secret assigned to your custom OAuth application. This confidential value is used to authenticate the application to the OAuth authorization server. (Custom OAuth applications only.).
Scope	Scope(s) to use when authenticating, that control access to specific information.