Load jQuery UI data to DuckDB

jQuery UI provides a set of user interface interactions, effects, and widgets that can be integrated into web applications, and its REST API allows for programmatic data access to these components. Everything needed to build a working jQuery UI → 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 jQuery UI 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 jQuery UI 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 jQuery UI 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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jQuery UI API at a glance

These values come from the jQuery UI API documentation. Check them against the vendor's current reference before relying on them in production.

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How do I authenticate with the jQuery UI API?

The API uses Bearer token authentication, which must be provided in the request headers.

1. Get your credentials

jQuery UI is a client-side JavaScript library for user interface components and does not provide a standard REST API with a dashboard for generating API keys. If your integration requires authentication (e.g., accessing a specific hosted service or custom backend implementation documented in your project's architecture), obtain credentials directly from that service's dashboard as specified by the service owner. For standard jQuery UI library usage, no credentials are required.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.jquery_ui_source]
# Add these lines to your .dlt/secrets.toml file if your target backend requires an API key
access_token = "your_api_key_or_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 jQuery UI data can I load into DuckDB?

These are the jQuery UI endpoints dlt can load into DuckDB:

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How do I load only new jQuery UI records?

The jQuery UI 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": "snap", "endpoint": {
    "path": "snap",
    # 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 jQuery UI pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading snap and menu from the jQuery UI API into DuckDB:

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

@dlt.source
def jquery_ui_source(access_token=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://api.jqueryui.com/v1/",
            "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": access_token},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "snap", "endpoint": {"path": "snap"}},
            {"name": "menu", "endpoint": {"path": "menu"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_jquery_ui_to_duckdb() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="jquery_ui_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="jquery_ui_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(jquery_ui_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_jquery_ui_to_duckdb()

Run it with python jquery_ui_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 jQuery UI 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("jquery_ui_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.snap.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM jquery_ui_data.snap LIMIT 10;

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

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How do I deploy the jQuery UI 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 jQuery UI 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 jQuery UI 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