Load Open Data Discovery data to DuckDB

Open Data Discovery is a platform for data cataloging and discovery that provides a REST API for programmatic access to catalog metadata and ingestion operations. Everything needed to build a working Open Data Discovery → 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 Open Data Discovery 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 Open Data Discovery 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 Open Data Discovery 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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Open Data Discovery API at a glance

These values come from the Open Data Discovery API reference — the authoritative source if anything here looks out of date.

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How do I authenticate with the Open Data Discovery API?

Requests are authenticated using a server-to-server (S2S) API key presented in the 'X-API-Key' HTTP header. This mechanism is enabled by setting 'auth.s2s.enabled' to true in the platform configuration.

1. Get your credentials

To obtain credentials for the Open Data Discovery (ODD) Platform API, you must use Server-to-Server (S2S) authentication. First, ensure S2S is enabled in your platform configuration by setting 'auth.s2s.enabled' to 'true'. Then, navigate to the Management section in your ODD Platform UI (typically at '{platform-base-url}/management/collectors'). From there, you can add a collector or manage existing ones to generate or view the required token. This token acts as your API key.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.open_data_discovery_source]
api_key = "your_long_random_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 Open Data Discovery data can I load into DuckDB?

These are the Open Data Discovery endpoints dlt can load into DuckDB:

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How do I load only new Open Data Discovery records?

Open Data Discovery exposes page on api/directory/datasources/{data_source_id}, so dlt can request only the records that changed since the last run. Set it as the cursor_path and dlt tracks the high-water mark for you between runs.

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{"name": "directory", "endpoint": {
    "path": "api/directory/datasources/{data_source_id}",
    "data_selector": "items",
    "incremental": {"cursor_path": "page", "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 Open Data Discovery pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading api/datasources and ingestion/entities from the Open Data Discovery API into DuckDB:

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

@dlt.source
def open_data_discovery_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "http://localhost:8080/",
            "auth": {"type": "api_key", "api_key": api_key, "name": "X-API-Key", "location": "header"},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "directory", "endpoint": {"path": "api/directory/datasources/{data_source_id}", "data_selector": "items"}},
            {"name": "relationships", "endpoint": {"path": "api/relationships", "data_selector": "items"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_open_data_discovery_to_duckdb() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="open_data_discovery_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="open_data_discovery_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(open_data_discovery_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_open_data_discovery_to_duckdb()

Run it with python open_data_discovery_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 Open Data Discovery 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("open_data_discovery_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.relationships.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM open_data_discovery_data.relationships LIMIT 10;

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

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How do I deploy the Open Data Discovery 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 Open Data Discovery 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 Open Data Discovery 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