Load Zoho Creator data to Microsoft Fabric

Zoho Creator REST API allows users to programmatically interact with applications to fetch, add, update, and delete data. Everything needed to build a working Zoho Creator → Microsoft Fabric 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 Zoho Creator to Microsoft Fabric pipeline

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

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 Zoho Creator 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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Zoho Creator API at a glance

These values come from the Zoho Creator API reference — the authoritative source if anything here looks out of date.

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How do I authenticate with the Zoho Creator API?

Authentication is handled via OAuth 2.0. Include the access token in the Authorization header of every request using the format 'Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken {access-token-value}'.

1. Get your credentials

1. Navigate to the Zoho API Console (accounts.zoho.com/developerconsole). 2. Click 'Add Client'. 3. Choose a client type (e.g., 'Server-based Applications'). 4. Enter a Client Name, Homepage URL, and Authorized Redirect URI. 5. Click 'Create' to receive your Client ID and Client Secret. 6. Use these credentials to initiate an OAuth 2.0 flow to obtain an access token and an optional refresh token via Zoho's authorization endpoint.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.zoho_creator_source]
access_token = "REPLACE_ME"

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 Zoho Creator data can I load into Microsoft Fabric?

These are the Zoho Creator endpoints dlt can load into Microsoft Fabric:

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How do I load only new Zoho Creator records?

The Zoho Creator 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": "records", "endpoint": {
    "path": "creator/v2.1/data/{account_owner_name}/{app_link_name}/report/{report_link_name}",
    # 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 Zoho Creator pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading records and applications from the Zoho Creator API into Microsoft Fabric:

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

@dlt.source
def zoho_creator_source(access_token=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://www.zohoapis.com (or the regional equivalent returned as api_domain in the token response)",
            "auth": {"type": "api_key", "api_key": access_token, "name": "Authorization", "location": "header"},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "records", "endpoint": {"path": "creator/v2.1/data/{account_owner_name}/{app_link_name}/report/{report_link_name}", "data_selector": "data"}},
            {"name": "reports", "endpoint": {"path": "creator/v2.1/meta/{account_owner_name}/{app_link_name}/reports", "data_selector": "reports"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_zoho_creator_to_fabric() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="zoho_creator_pipeline",
        destination="fabric",
        dataset_name="zoho_creator_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(zoho_creator_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_zoho_creator_to_fabric()

Run it with python zoho_creator_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 Zoho Creator data in Microsoft Fabric?

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("zoho_creator_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.records.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM zoho_creator_data.records LIMIT 10;

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

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How do I deploy the Zoho Creator to Microsoft Fabric 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 Zoho Creator 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 Zoho Creator 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