target-csv - Meltano Hub

Comma Separated Values (CSV)

target-csv (hotgluexyz variant)🥈

CSV loader

The target-csv loader sends data into Comma Separated Values (CSV) after it was pulled from a source using an extractor

Alternate Implementations

Hotglue🥈
Meltano
(default)🥇
Stitch Data
🥈

Getting Started

Prerequisites

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

Installation and configuration

Add the target-csv loader to your project using
```
meltano add
```
:

meltano add loader target-csv --variant hotgluexyz

Configure the target-csv settings using

meltano config

meltano config target-csv set --interactive

Next steps

Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:

Run a data integration (EL) pipeline

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

Capabilities

This plugin currently has no capabilities defined. If you know the capabilities required by this plugin, please contribute!

Settings

The target-csv 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:

destination_path
delimiter
quotechar

You can also list these settings using

meltano config

with the list subcommand:

meltano config target-csv 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.

Destination Path (destination_path)

Environment variable: TARGET_CSV_DESTINATION_PATH
Default Value: output

Sets the destination path the CSV files are written to, relative to the project root.

The directory needs to exist already, it will not be created automatically.

To write CSV files to the project root, set an empty string ("").

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-csv set destination_path [value]

Delimiter (delimiter)

Environment variable: TARGET_CSV_DELIMITER
Default Value: ,

A one-character string used to separate fields. It defaults to a comma (,).

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-csv set delimiter [value]

Quote Character (quotechar)

Environment variable: TARGET_CSV_QUOTECHAR
Default Value: '

A one-character string used to quote fields containing special characters, such as the delimiter or quotechar, or which contain new-line characters. It defaults to single quote (').

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-csv set quotechar [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 target-csv loader 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 loader target-csv --variant hotgluexyz

Maintenance Status

Repo

https://github.com/hotgluexyz/target-csv

Maintainer

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