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Guesty Open API is a REST API for accessing and managing Guesty account data including listings and reservations. The REST API base URL is https://open-api.guesty.com/v1 and all requests require a Bearer token via OAuth 2.0.

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 Guesty data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from Guesty?

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

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
listings/v1/listingsGETRetrieve a list of listings
reservations/v1/reservationsGETRetrieve a list of reservations
guests/v1/guestsGETRetrieve a list of guests
tasks/v1/tasksGETRetrieve a list of tasks
webhooks/v1/webhooksGETRetrieve a list of webhooks

How do I authenticate with the Guesty API?

All requests require an 'Authorization: Bearer <access_token>' header, where the token is obtained via an OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow.

1. Get your credentials

  1. Log in to your Guesty dashboard. 2. Navigate to the Integrations menu in the side navigation bar and select OAuth applications. 3. Click New application in the top right, then enter the required name and description and save. 4. Once created, copy and securely store the generated Client ID and Client Secret, as they will be redacted after the initial view.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.guesty_source] access_token = "REPLACE_ME"

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 Guesty 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 guesty_pipeline.py

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

Pipeline guesty_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset guesty_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/guesty.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 /listings and /reservations from the Guesty 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 guesty_source(access_token=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://open-api.guesty.com/v1", "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": access_token}, }, "resources": [ {"name": "reservations", "endpoint": {"path": "v1/reservations"}}, {"name": "listings", "endpoint": {"path": "v1/listings"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="guesty_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="guesty_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(guesty_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("guesty_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.reservations.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM guesty_data.reservations LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("guesty_pipeline").dataset() data.reservations.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 Guesty 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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