Seismic
Seismic is a global leader in AI-powered sales enablement, providing the Seismic Enablement Cloud to equip customer-facing teams with the content, skills, tools, and insights to maximize every buyer interaction. It unifies content management, learning and coaching, digital sales rooms, meeting intelligence, and reporting analytics. Teams personalize content at scale, track engagement, and extract reporting data.
Power end-to-end data operations for your Seismic API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Seismic connector is purpose-built for Seismic, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Seismic or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Seismic workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.
Features
Type: API
- Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
- Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
- API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
- Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs
Prerequisites
Before creating a Seismic credential in Nexla, you need to register an application in the Seismic App Registration Portal and obtain OAuth2 credentials. Seismic uses the OAuth2 Authorization Code Flow (3-legged OAuth) to authorize third-party integrations.
Identify Your Tenant ID
Your Seismic Tenant ID is the subdomain portion of your Seismic URL. For example, if your organization accesses Seismic at https://mycompany.seismic.com, your Tenant ID is mycompany.
Register an Application in the Seismic App Registration Portal
Only Seismic tenant administrators have permission to register applications. Complete the following steps in the Seismic App Registration Portal:
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Log in to the Seismic App Registration Portal using your Seismic tenant administrator credentials.
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Click the orange + button in the upper right corner of the portal to begin creating a new application.
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On the Basic Information tab, enter an application name (e.g., "Nexla Integration"), a contact email address, and a short description.
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On the Authentication tab, select Authorization Code as the authentication flow. This is the flow required for the Nexla integration.
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In the Redirect URIs field, add the Nexla OAuth callback URL:
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On the Scopes tab, select the scopes that correspond to the data you want Nexla to access. Seismic scopes follow the format
seismic.object.permission. For typical reporting and data extraction use cases, select:seismic.reporting.read— Required for all Reporting API endpoints (content usage, user activity, programs, library contents, etc.)seismic.content.read— Required for reading content items and library dataseismic.channels.manage— Required if using Channels API endpoints (List Channels, List Posts in Channel, List Posts)
Select only the scopes required for your specific use case. Additional scopes can be added later by updating the application registration. For a complete list of available scopes, refer to the Seismic Scopes documentation.
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Click Save to create the application. After saving, copy the Client ID displayed on the application details page.
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Click the Generate button to generate a Client Secret. Copy the Client Secret immediately, as it will not be shown again after you leave this page.
ImportantStore the Client Secret in a secure location. Seismic does not display the secret again after initial generation. If the secret is lost, you must generate a new one, which will invalidate the previous secret.
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Log in to your Seismic instance (e.g.,
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Click on the application row to open its configuration page, then click Enable App in Seismic to activate the application for your tenant. Accept the consent modal that appears.
The application must be enabled in your Seismic tenant before Nexla can complete the OAuth authorization flow. This step is separate from the App Registration Portal and must be performed by a tenant administrator.
Authenticate
Credentials required
OAuth2 authentication for Seismic API. Requires tenant ID, client ID, and client secret.
| Field | Required | Secret | Description |
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| Tenant ID | Yes | No | Your Seismic tenant identifier (e.g., yourcompany from yourcompany.seismic.com) |
| Client ID | Yes | Yes | Application client ID from Seismic developer portal |
| Client Secret | Yes | Yes | Application client secret from Seismic developer portal |
Create a credential in Nexla
Nexla connects to Seismic using the OAuth2 Authorization Code (3-legged) flow. You will need your Tenant ID, Client ID, and Client Secret obtained from the Seismic App Registration Portal.
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To create a new Seismic credential, after selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.
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Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.
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Enter your Seismic Tenant ID in the Tenant ID field. This is the subdomain of your Seismic instance URL (e.g., if your Seismic URL is
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Enter the Client ID from the Seismic App Registration Portal in the Client ID field. This uniquely identifies your registered application.
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Enter the Client Secret generated in the Seismic App Registration Portal in the Client Secret field. This secret is used to authenticate the application during token exchange.
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Click the Authorize button (or equivalent OAuth flow trigger) to initiate the Seismic OAuth2 authorization flow. You will be redirected to Seismic's login page at
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Log in to Seismic with your Seismic user account credentials and review the requested permissions. Click Accept or Authorize to grant Nexla access.
The Seismic user account used to authorize the credential must have access to the scopes requested by the registered application. For reporting data, the user should have appropriate reporting permissions within Seismic. The authorization grants Nexla access on behalf of this user account.
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After successfully authorizing, Nexla will receive an access token and refresh token, which will be stored securely with the credential. Nexla will use these tokens for all subsequent API calls to Seismic.
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Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.
Use as a data source
The Seismic connector enables you to extract reporting and operational data directly from your Seismic Enablement Cloud instance into Nexla — including content usage analytics, user activity, AI engagement metrics, program data, library contents, and team management data from Seismic's Reporting API — ideal for feeding data lakes, data warehouses, and downstream analytics platforms.
To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Seismic connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Seismic instance, and click Next; or, create a new Seismic credential for use in this flow.
Endpoint templates
Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Seismic Reporting API endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below. Click on an endpoint to see more information about it and how to configure your data source for this endpoint.
Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving. If the sample data is not as expected, review the selected endpoint and associated settings, make any necessary adjustments, and test again.
Manual configuration
Seismic data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Seismic API endpoint, including endpoints from Seismic's Integration API, Content Management API, or other API surfaces beyond the Reporting API, as well as sources that use chained API calls or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.
All Seismic API endpoints begin with https://api.seismic.com/ (e.g., the Reporting API fields endpoint is https://api.seismic.com/reporting/fields). Seismic API responses wrap records inside a named array — commonly $.records[*], $.data[*], $.fields[*], or $.tables[*] depending on the endpoint — so set the path to data accordingly. Most Reporting API endpoints accept ISO 8601 timestamps (yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'), except the Daily Active Users endpoint, which expects yyyy-MM-dd. You do not need to add an Authorization header — it's handled automatically by the Seismic OAuth2 credential, and Content-Type: application/json is included automatically.
Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Seismic data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.
Use as a destination
Click the + icon on the Nexset that will be sent to the Seismic destination, and select the Send to Destination option from the menu. Select the Seismic connector from the list of available destination connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Seismic organization, and click Next; or, create a new Seismic credential for use in this flow.
Endpoint templates
Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure destinations to send data to common Seismic API write endpoints. Select the endpoint to which data will be sent from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Then, click on the template in the list below to expand it, and follow the instructions to configure additional endpoint settings.
Manual configuration
Seismic destinations can also be manually configured to send data to any valid Seismic write endpoint not covered by the pre-built templates, such as endpoints in the Content Management API, Integration API, or other Seismic API surfaces. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, data format, endpoint URL, request headers, attribute exclusions, record batching, and response webhooks.
The Seismic API expects data in JSON format for all write operations. All Seismic API base URLs begin with https://api.seismic.com/; for update or upsert operations, include the ID of the object to update at the end of the URL (e.g., https://api.seismic.com/posts/{post_id}). You do not need to add an Authorization header — it's handled automatically by the Seismic OAuth2 credential, and Content-Type: application/json is set automatically based on the selected data format.
Save & activate
Once all endpoint settings have been configured, click the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the destination. To begin sending data to Seismic, open the destination resource menu, and select Activate.
The Nexset data will not be sent to Seismic until the destination is activated. Destinations can be activated immediately or at a later time, providing full control over data movement.