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Clarity AI's REST API allows querying metrics and data across fund, portfolio, security, and organization levels. Authentication uses tokens, and asynchronous endpoints return a JobID for data retrieval. The API supports four aggregation levels: Organization, Security, Portfolio, and Fund. The REST API base URL is https://api.clarity.ai/clarity/v1 and All requests require a short-lived Bearer token obtained from /oauth/token using your API key and secret..
dlt is an open-source Python library that handles authentication, pagination, and schema evolution automatically. dlthub provides AI context files that enable code assistants to generate production-ready pipelines. Install with uv pip install "dlt[workspace]" and start loading Clarity AI data in under 10 minutes.
What data can I load from Clarity AI?
Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Clarity AI:
| Resource | Endpoint | Method | Data selector | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| patients | /v1/patient | GET | (response is object) — top-level keys like "demographics" and "files" (list under "files") | List all Patients |
| patient | /v1/patient/{id} | GET | (response object) — patient fields under top-level keys like "demographics" | Retrieve a Patient by id |
| conversations | /v1/conversations | GET | (top-level array or object per docs/examples) | Conversations list (quickstart references /v1/conversations) |
| oauth_token | /oauth/token | POST | response key "token" | Obtain Bearer token (returns JSON {"token": "..."}) |
| universe_download | /clarity/v1/universe/downloads (or Universe job endpoints) | GET/async | downloads return CSV/zip (as file) — asynchronous job flow (JobID then downloads endpoint) | Download universe CSV or compressed CSV |
How do I authenticate with the Clarity AI API?
To authenticate, obtain an API key and secret (Client Key and Client Secret) from Developer Settings in the Clarity dashboard. Use these credentials to call POST /oauth/token with a JSON body containing the key and secret to receive a bearer token, which expires in approximately 60 minutes. Include this token in subsequent requests in the Authorization header as: Authorization: Bearer .
1. Get your credentials
- Sign in to the Clarity web application and navigate to Developer Settings > API. 2. Create or copy your Client Key and Client Secret (API Key and Secret). 3. Request a token by sending a POST request to https://api.clarity.ai/clarity/v1/oauth/token with a JSON body containing {"key": "<your_client_key>", "secret": "<your_client_secret>"}. 4. Copy the returned token value from the response JSON (under the "token" key) and use it in Authorization: Bearer headers for subsequent API calls.
2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml
[sources.clarity_ai_source] api_key = "your_client_key_here" api_secret = "your_client_secret_here"
dlt reads this automatically at runtime — never hardcode tokens in your pipeline script. For production environments, see setting up credentials with dlt for environment variable and vault-based options.
How do I set up and run the pipeline?
Set up a virtual environment and install dlt:
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate uv pip install "dlt[workspace]"
1. Install the dlt AI Workbench:
dlt ai init --agent <your-agent> # <agent>: claude | cursor | codex
This installs project rules, a secrets management skill, appropriate ignore files, and configures the dlt MCP server for your agent. Learn more →
2. Install the rest-api-pipeline toolkit:
dlt ai toolkit rest-api-pipeline install
This loads the skills and context about dlt the agent uses to build the pipeline iteratively, efficiently, and safely. The agent uses MCP tools to inspect credentials — it never needs to read your secrets.toml directly. Learn more →
3. Start LLM-assisted coding:
Use /find-source to load data from the Clarity AI API into DuckDB.
The rest-api-pipeline toolkit takes over from here — it reads relevant API documentation, presents you with options for which endpoints to load, and follows a structured workflow to scaffold, debug, and validate the pipeline step by step.
4. Run the pipeline:
python clarity_ai_pipeline.py
If everything is configured correctly, you'll see output like this:
Pipeline clarity_ai_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset clarity_ai_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/clarity_ai.duckdb location to store data Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs
Inspect your pipeline and data:
dlt pipeline clarity_ai_pipeline show
This opens the Pipeline Dashboard where you can verify pipeline state, load metrics, schema (tables, columns, types), and query the loaded data directly.
Python pipeline example
This example loads patients and conversations from the Clarity AI API into DuckDB. It mirrors the endpoint and data selector configuration from the table above:
import dlt from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources @dlt.source def clarity_ai_source(api_key_secret_pair=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://api.clarity.ai/clarity/v1", "auth": { "type": "bearer", "token": api_key_secret_pair, }, }, "resources": [ {"name": "patients", "endpoint": {"path": "v1/patient", "data_selector": "files"}}, {"name": "conversations", "endpoint": {"path": "v1/conversations"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="clarity_ai_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="clarity_ai_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(clarity_ai_source()) print(load_info)
To add more endpoints, append entries from the resource table to the "resources" list using the same name, path, and data_selector pattern.
How do I query the loaded data?
Once the pipeline runs, dlt creates one table per resource. You can query with Python or SQL.
Python (pandas DataFrame):
import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("clarity_ai_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.patients.df() print(sessions_df.head())
SQL (DuckDB example):
SELECT * FROM clarity_ai_data.patients LIMIT 10;
In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:
import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("clarity_ai_pipeline").dataset() data.patients.df().head()
See how to explore your data in marimo Notebooks and how to query your data in Python with dataset.
What destinations can I load Clarity AI data to?
dlt supports loading into any of these destinations — only the destination parameter changes:
| Destination | Example value |
|---|---|
| DuckDB (local, default) | "duckdb" |
| PostgreSQL | "postgres" |
| BigQuery | "bigquery" |
| Snowflake | "snowflake" |
| Redshift | "redshift" |
| Databricks | "databricks" |
| Filesystem (S3, GCS, Azure) | "filesystem" |
Change the destination in dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. See the full destinations list.
Next steps
Continue your data engineering journey with the other toolkits of the dltHub AI Workbench:
data-exploration— Build custom notebooks, charts, and dashboards for deeper analysis with marimo notebooks.dlthub-runtime— Deploy, schedule, and monitor your pipeline in production.
dlt ai toolkit data-exploration install dlt ai toolkit dlthub-runtime install
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