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tap-dbt (meltanolabs variant)🥇

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The tap-dbt extractor pulls data from dbt Cloud that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

  1. Install Meltano
  2. Create your Meltano project

Installation and configuration

  1. Add the tap-dbt extractor to your project using
    meltano add
    :
  2. meltano add extractor tap-dbt
  3. Configure the tap-dbt settings using
    meltano config
    :
  4. meltano config tap-dbt set --interactive
  5. Test that extractor settings are valid using
    meltano config
    :
  6. meltano config tap-dbt test

Next steps

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

The current capabilities for tap-dbt may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the capabilities for this extractor.

This plugin has the following capabilities:

  • about
  • batch
  • catalog
  • discover
  • schema-flattening
  • state
  • stream-maps

You can override these capabilities or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the capabilities key.

Settings

The tap-dbt settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

You can also list these settings using

meltano config
with the list subcommand:

meltano config tap-dbt list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Account IDs (account_ids)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_ACCOUNT_IDS

dbt Cloud account IDs


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set account_ids [value]

API Key (api_key)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_API_KEY

API key for the dbt Cloud API


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set api_key [value]

Base URL (base_url)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_BASE_URL
  • Default Value: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v2

Base URL for the dbt Cloud API


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set base_url [value]

Page Size (page_size)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_PAGE_SIZE
  • Default Value: 5000

Page size to use in limit= url parameter


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set page_size [value]

User Agent (user_agent)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_USER_AGENT
  • Default Value: tap-dbt/0.10.1.dev14+36d0c91 Singer tap for the dbt Cloud API.

User-Agent to make requests with


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set user_agent [value]
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Batch Config Encoding Compression (batch_config.encoding.compression)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_BATCH_CONFIG_ENCODING_COMPRESSION

Compression format to use for batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set batch_config encoding.compression [value]

Batch Config Encoding Format (batch_config.encoding.format)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_BATCH_CONFIG_ENCODING_FORMAT

Format to use for batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set batch_config encoding.format [value]

Batch Config Storage Prefix (batch_config.storage.prefix)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_BATCH_CONFIG_STORAGE_PREFIX

Prefix to use when writing batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set batch_config storage.prefix [value]

Batch Config Storage Root (batch_config.storage.root)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_BATCH_CONFIG_STORAGE_ROOT

Root path to use when writing batch files.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set batch_config storage.root [value]

Faker Config Locale (faker_config.locale)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_FAKER_CONFIG_LOCALE

One or more LCID locale strings to produce localized output for: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/#localization


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set faker_config locale [value]

Faker Config Seed (faker_config.seed)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_FAKER_CONFIG_SEED

Value to seed the Faker generator for deterministic output: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/#seeding-the-generator


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set faker_config seed [value]

Flattening Enabled (flattening_enabled)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_FLATTENING_ENABLED

'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set flattening_enabled [value]

Flattening Max Depth (flattening_max_depth)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_FLATTENING_MAX_DEPTH

The max depth to flatten schemas.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set flattening_max_depth [value]

Stream Map Config (stream_map_config)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_STREAM_MAP_CONFIG

User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set stream_map_config [value]

Stream Maps (stream_maps)

  • Environment variable: TAP_DBT_STREAM_MAPS

Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-dbt set stream_maps [value]

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tap-dbt extractor to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the
#plugins-general
channel.

Install

meltano add extractor tap-dbt

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