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Build a Facturapi-to-database pipeline in Python using dlt with AI harness support for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

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Facturapi is a REST API platform for managing electronic invoicing (CFDI) in Mexico, offering tools for creating and retrieving tax documents and organization resources. The REST API base URL is https://www.facturapi.io/v2 and all requests require a Bearer token.

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 add "dlt[hub]" and start loading Facturapi data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from Facturapi?

Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Facturapi:

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
customers/customersGETdataList customers
products/productsGETdataList products
invoices/invoicesGETdataList invoices
receipts/receiptsGETdataList e-receipts
retentions/retentionsGETdataList retentions
organizations/organizationsGETdataList organizations

How do I authenticate with the Facturapi API?

Each request must include an Authorization header with the value 'Bearer <SECRET_KEY>', where <SECRET_KEY> is your organization's Test, Live, or User secret key.

1. Get your credentials

To obtain your Facturapi API credentials, navigate to your Facturapi dashboard and go to the Integrations section, specifically the API keys page (usually located at https://dashboard.facturapi.io/integration/apikeys). From here, you can generate and manage your Test Secret Key (for sandbox/development environments) and your Live Secret Key (for production environments). User Secret Keys are used for managing account-level permissions and organization creation. Ensure these keys are stored securely in your application environment, as they provide full access to your organization's resources.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.facturapi_source] api_key = "sk_test_..." # or "sk_live_..."

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 init uv add "dlt[hub]"

1. Install the dlt AI harness:

uv run dlthub 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:

uv run dlthub ai toolkit install rest-api-pipeline

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 Facturapi 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:

uv run python facturapi_pipeline.py

If everything is configured correctly, you'll see output like this:

Pipeline facturapi_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset facturapi_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/facturapi.duckdb location to store data Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs

Inspect your pipeline and data:

uv run dlthub 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 invoices and customers from the Facturapi 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 facturapi_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://www.facturapi.io/v2", "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": api_key}, }, "resources": [ {"name": "customers", "endpoint": {"path": "customers", "data_selector": "data"}}, {"name": "products", "endpoint": {"path": "products", "data_selector": "data"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="facturapi_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="facturapi_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(facturapi_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("facturapi_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.customers.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM facturapi_data.customers LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("facturapi_pipeline").dataset() data.customers.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 Facturapi data to?

dlt supports loading into any of these destinations — only the destination parameter changes:

DestinationExample 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 harness:

  • data-exploration — Build custom notebooks, charts, and dashboards for deeper analysis with marimo notebooks.
  • dlthub-platform — Deploy, schedule, and monitor your pipeline in production.
uv run dlthub ai toolkit install data-exploration uv run dlthub ai toolkit install dlthub-platform

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