Load Doppler data to DuckDB

Doppler is a secret management platform that allows users to centralize and sync secrets across various environments and services. Everything needed to build a working Doppler → DuckDB pipeline is on this page: the API's base URL, authentication, endpoints, pagination and incremental field — plus a prompt that hands the whole job to your coding agent.

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Build your Doppler to DuckDB pipeline

Paste this prompt into Claude, Codex, or Cursor. The agent does the rest.

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Run uvx dlthub-init@latest to build a pipeline from Doppler to DuckDB and run it on dltHub

That scaffolds a dltHub workspace and installs the dltHub AI harness — the project rules, the secrets-management skill, and the dlt MCP server your agent needs to work safely. From there it reads the Doppler API, proposes the endpoints to load, then writes, runs and validates the pipeline while you review rather than type. Credentials are inspected through MCP tools, so your agent never reads secrets.toml itself. How the LLM-native workflow works →

Prefer to write it yourself? Every fact the agent uses is below.

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Doppler API at a glance

These values come from the Doppler API reference — the authoritative source if anything here looks out of date.

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How do I authenticate with the Doppler API?

Authentication is performed by providing a bearer token in the HTTP Authorization header (e.g., 'Authorization: Bearer '). Alternatively, basic authentication can be used by providing the token as the user with a blank password.

1. Get your credentials

To obtain API credentials for the Doppler REST API, you can generate different types of tokens via the Doppler Dashboard or CLI depending on your use case: 1. Service Tokens: Provide read/write access to secrets within a specific config. Navigate to the 'Project > Config > Access' page on the Doppler Dashboard to generate one. 2. Personal Tokens: Provide read/write access to all resources on your account. Generate these from the 'Tokens > Personal' page on the Doppler Dashboard. 3. CLI Authentication: Use the 'doppler login' command in the Doppler CLI to authenticate your local machine. You can retrieve the active token for API use by running 'doppler configure get token --plain'. For production environments, Service Tokens are recommended as they restrict access to specific configs. All API requests must include the token as a Bearer token in the 'Authorization' HTTP header (e.g., 'Authorization: Bearer ').

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.doppler_source]
api_key = "dp.st.your_token_here"

dlt reads this file automatically at runtime. With the harness, the setup-secrets skill prompts you for the values and never handles the raw credential in chat. For production, see setting up credentials with dlt.

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What Doppler data can I load into DuckDB?

These are the Doppler endpoints dlt can load into DuckDB:

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How do I load only new Doppler records?

The Doppler API reference does not document a timestamp or sequence field for these endpoints, so there is nothing to advertise here as verified. Pick a field from the endpoints table above that increases with every write, then set it as the cursor_path.

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{"name": "projects", "endpoint": {
    "path": "v3/projects",
    # Replace with a field that increases on every write.
    "incremental": {"cursor_path": "REPLACE_ME", "initial_value": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"},
}}

On the first run dlt loads everything from initial_value; on every run after that it requests only what changed and appends with write_disposition="merge" if you set a primary key. See incremental loading.

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What does the generated Doppler pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading /v3/projects and /v3/configs/config/secrets/download from the Doppler API into DuckDB:

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import dlt
from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources

@dlt.source
def doppler_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://api.doppler.com/",
            "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": api_key},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "projects", "endpoint": {"path": "v3/projects", "data_selector": "projects"}},
            {"name": "configs", "endpoint": {"path": "v3/configs", "data_selector": "configs"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_doppler_to_duckdb() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="doppler_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="doppler_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(doppler_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_doppler_to_duckdb()

Run it with python doppler_pipeline.py. The agent iterates on this until it loads cleanly — you review and approve, rather than write it from scratch.

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How do I query Doppler data in DuckDB?

dlt creates one table per resource. Query the loaded data with Python or SQL — or ask your agent to, through the MCP server's execute_sql_query tool.

Python (pandas DataFrame):

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("doppler_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.projects.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM doppler_data.projects LIMIT 10;

See querying your data with dataset and exploring it in marimo notebooks.

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How do I deploy the Doppler to DuckDB pipeline in production?

The pipeline runs locally, which is ideal for prototyping and one-off analysis. When you need it on a schedule, monitored on every load, and shared with your team, deploy the same dlt code on the dltHub platform — no infrastructure to maintain. The prompt above already ends with "run it on dltHub", so your agent can take it there directly.

• Deploy & schedule — run the pipeline as a managed job with automatic retries.
• Monitor — observable job queues, alerting, and load metrics for every run.
• Transform — promote raw Doppler loads into governed, documented models.
• Visualize & share — explore data in notebooks and publish live dashboards instead of static screenshots.

Book a demo →

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What other destinations can I load Doppler data to?

dlt loads into any of these — only the destination argument changes:

Set dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. On the dltHub platform the same pipeline runs against a managed Iceberg lakehouse. See the full destinations list.

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Next steps

• Ready for production? Book a demo of the dltHub platform →
• dlt LLM-native workflow docs
• REST API source reference
• Join the dlt community on Slack