Connecting Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) with Lightcast Data Shares

Lightcast offers the most comprehensive labor market trends, job postings, workforce profiles, compensation, career pathways, skills projections, demographic insights, and related data in the world. Quickly slicing, dicing, and analyzing large datasets is now easier than ever thanks to the launch of Lightcast data shares. 

What are Lightcast Data Shares?

Following the launch of Lightcast Data Shares, Lightcast data is now available through direct data shares on Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and other leading file storage platforms, data warehouses, and marketplaces.  

Data sharing through Lightcast is seamless, flexible and secure, shared directly with existing file storage platforms or data warehouses. As an added benefit, little to no technical lifting is required from customers’ internal teams.

Thanks to Lightest Data Shares, delivering data through data sharing is simple and clients also have the option to dissect, modify, or prepare data before integrating it into their internal or external solutions. Shared data is always up-to-date and secure, because data is shared directly with each customer’s existing cloud storage or warehouse as platform-native sharing, a data feed, or both. 

Because accepting Data Shares from Lightcast requires few technical resources, this leads to decreased costs and faster processes. Data Shares make the process of using Lightcast data for ingestion into large language models (LLMs), AI solutions, and predictive analytics models easier than ever for clients.

Lightcast Data Shares can also be tailored based on each organization’s business needs and each Data Shares integration can be fully operational in less than two business days.

How Data Shares and SFTP Work Together

SFTP is a popular and well supported method of accessing files. Lightcast supports SFTP as a destination, enabling you to grant individuals access using their own SFTP clients.

What if I Don’t Use SFTP? 

Lightcast supports several data share destinations beyond SFTP, including Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Amazon S3.

What if I Don’t Use SFTP? 

Lightcast supports several data share destinations beyond SFTP, including Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Amazon S3.

How to Connect SFTP with Lightcast Data Shares

1. Generate an SSH key-pair

2. Provide Lightcast with the public key

3. Lightcast will then provide you with a username and the host details

4. Connect via your favorite SSH tool

Discover more about Lightcast Data Shares or contact our team to discuss your specific needs and how to connect SFTP with Lightcast Data Shares.