What’s a Partner Connector?

A Partner connector is a Custom Destination that is officially registered in our system and available for all users as if it were a first-class Census-built connector.

Why Partner Connectors?

Partner Connectors are a way for you to share your Custom Destination with the Census community. With Partner Connectors, you have a turnkey solution to get data into your product without building and maintaining a web of native integrations. Instead of building 15+ point-to-point integrations with other SaaS solutions, a Census integration lets you immediately connect centralized data in your customer’s data warehouse into your app. See our blog post for more details!

How to create a Partner Connector

  1. Build a Custom Destination: Follow our Destination Spec to build a Custom Destination.
  2. Register your connector: Create the connector via the POST /connectors endpoint
  3. Submit your connector for review: Once you’ve built your Custom Destination, you can submit it for review by the Census team by contacting us at support@getcensus.com.

Additional Details

Please see the API Reference for more details on the endpoints mentioned above, along with others for updating/deleting these connectors.

FAQ

Do Partner Connectors have rate limiting?

Partner Connectors use the Custom API rate limiting mechanisms, of which there are two:

  1. Connection-wide rate limiting
  2. Per sync-run rate limiting

Read more here

Why are my calls to create/update a connector taking a long time?

When you provide an icon_url we synchronously download it and upload it to our CDN before returning a response. This can make requests to create/update a connector take longer than usual and we will work to make this step an asynchronous job in the near future. If you do not provide the icon_url your requests should return a response within half a second or so.