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The mParticle feed integrations allow you to ingest data into your mParticle account directly from a third party data sources and data warehouses. You can use feeds to supplement the data collected directly from your app with additional data that might only be available from external sources.

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Data available from feeds may include:

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To create a data input from a third party feed:

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  1. Log into your mParticle account and navigate to Data Platform > Setup > Inputs using the left hand navigation.
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  2. Go to the Feeds tab.
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  3. Click the Add Feed Input button and select one of the supported inbound feed providers.
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  4. Continue by following the provided instructions and entering any necessary information to complete creating your feed input.
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\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Forwarding data from feeds

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When planning a feed implementation, it is important to consider if and how you want the data to be forwarded to any event outputs. Event integrations connect an a data input, which is a single platform or feed, to a single output.

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Most outputs can only accept connections from a limited set of platforms. When connecting a feed to an output, you can configure your feed to “act-as” one of the platform SDKs, like iOS, Android, or Web. This allows you to send data ingested from a feed to an output that might only accept data from one of the platform SDKs.

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\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n “Act-as” feeds

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Act-as feeds are feeds which mParticle can treat as if they belonged to a single platform. For example, if a feed can “act as” iOS, you can connect the feed to any output that accepts data from the iOS platform.

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When you configure an act-as feed, you will need to select the platform you want the feed to act as:

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You can connect an act-as feed to any output that can support the platform it is configured to act as.

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Note that for act-as feeds, if you wish to capture data for multiple platforms, you will need to configure multiple instances of the feed — one for each platform.

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\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n “Unbound” feeds

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If you do not see an option to select an “act-as” platform when you configure a feed, the data from that feed is treated as “unbound”: not tied to a particular platform. For example, a feed that forwards data about user actions in response to an email campaign will be an unbound feed. These events don’t specifically belong to a platform, like iOS or Android, and won’t have the necessary identifiers to be processed as iOS or Android events.

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Outputs that only support iOS / Android / Web will not accept data from unbound feeds. However:

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