# Demonstration: Connecting Data Sources

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/getting-started-with-data-insights/data-insights-course-1--demonstration-connecting-data-sources |
| **course_slug** | getting-started-with-data-insights |
| **lesson_slug** | data-insights-course-1--demonstration-connecting-data-sources |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/getting-started-with-data-insights/data-insights-course-1--demonstration-connecting-data-sources.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-05-22T14:37:28.618Z |

> Part of **[Getting Started with Data and Insights](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/getting-started-with-data-insights)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** 5-data-insights-demo-connecting-data-sources
- **Duration:** 1m 22s
- **Media link:** https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/uorE5Mf1
- **Publish date (unix):** 1752846141

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#### Video transcript

There's a number of ways that you can get data into Lytx, so the JavaScript tag uses our collect SDK or our collect APIs. We have a bunch of APIs to accept JSON data and CSV data and single events and bulk events and all that kind of stuff. And then we also, and we'll go through a lot of these in another session, but we have hundreds and hundreds of pre-built integrations with basically every marketing tool out there that you can sort of click your way through. So in the case of Salesforce, I can say, I want to pull in my audience's activity data. You would authenticate, we'll skip that. You can configure kind of what you want to pull in. You start this backend work, and then it's also going to stream and pull in the information to Lytx. So we'll go into the kind of work configuration and all of what it can do and how it works with warehouses and webhooks a little bit later. But our pre-built integrations are one of the kind of major ways that you can pull data in along with all of our APIs.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Demonstration: Connecting Data Sources** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Demonstration: Connecting Data Sources. Demonstration: Connecting Data Sources in Getting Started with Data and Insights (getting-started-with-data-insights).

### Retrieval tags

- Demonstration
- Connecting
- Data
- Sources
- getting-started-with-data-insights
- lesson 05
- Demonstration: Connecting Data Sources
- getting-started-with-data-insights lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "05" and topics: [Demonstration, Connecting, Data, Sources].
Parent course slug: getting-started-with-data-insights. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file.

### Asset references

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| Video thumbnail: Demonstration: Connecting Data Sources | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/uorE5Mf1/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` |
| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |