# Trello Community

Trello is a visual project management tool that uses boards, lists, and cards to help teams organize tasks and workflows. Connecting Trello to Coupler.io lets you pull your project data — cards, checklists, activity logs, and more — into any destination for reporting and analysis.

## Why connect Trello to Coupler.io?

* **Centralize project data** — combine boards, cards, checklists, and user activity in one place
* **Track team productivity** — analyze card movement, action history, and workload across boards
* **Build live dashboards** — send Trello data to Google Sheets, Looker Studio, BigQuery, or AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude
* **Merge with other sources** — use Join or Append transformations to combine Trello data with time-tracking, CRM, or finance data

## Prerequisites

* A Trello account (free or paid)
* Access to the boards you want to export — you must be a member of those boards
* A Coupler.io account

## Quick start

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Start with the **Cards** entity for your most active board. It gives you the richest dataset and the clearest picture of task status right away.
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## How to connect

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**Create a new data flow in Coupler.io.** From your Coupler.io dashboard, click **Add data flow**. Search for **Trello Community** and select it as your source.
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**Authorize your Trello account.** Click **Connect** and sign in to Trello via OAuth. Grant Coupler.io read access to your boards and organizations. If you manage multiple Trello accounts, make sure you sign in with the correct one.
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**Choose an entity.** Select what you want to export — Boards, Cards, Actions, Checklists, Lists, Users, or Organizations. You can add multiple sources within the same data flow to pull several entities at once.
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**Choose a destination.** Pick where your data should land — Google Sheets, Excel, BigQuery, Looker Studio, or an AI destination like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Perplexity, or OpenClaw.
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**Run the data flow.** Click **Run** to execute your first manual sync. Once it completes successfully, your Trello data will appear in your chosen destination.
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## Entities overview

| Entity        | Description                                                         |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Boards        | Trello boards with their settings, members, and metadata            |
| Organizations | Workspaces that group multiple boards and teams                     |
| Actions       | Full activity log — card moves, edits, comments, and more           |
| Cards         | Individual tasks including status, due dates, labels, and assignees |
| Checklists    | Subtask lists attached to cards, with completion status             |
| Lists         | Columns within a board that organize cards into stages              |
| Users         | Members and collaborators with access to boards                     |