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Build a Impact-to-database pipeline in Python using dlt with AI Workbench support for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
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Impact.com integrates with Stripe to track payments and subscriptions, using webhooks for event capture. Stripe API credentials are provided via impact.com's partner portal. The integration captures specific Stripe events to ensure accurate tracking. The REST API base URL is https://api.impact.com and All requests require an API Key or JWT Bearer token for authentication.
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 Impact data in under 10 minutes.
What data can I load from Impact?
Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Impact:
| Resource | Endpoint | Method | Data selector | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| campaigns | /Advertisers//Campaigns | GET | campaigns | List of advertising campaigns. |
| offers | /Advertisers//Offers | GET | offers | List of product offers available to partners. |
| affiliates | /Advertisers//Affiliates | GET | affiliates | List of affiliate accounts. |
| stats | /Advertisers//Stats | GET | stats | Performance statistics for the advertiser. |
| reports | /Advertisers//Reports | GET | reports | Generated reports for the advertiser. |
| conversions | /Advertisers//Conversions | POST | Record a conversion event. (included for completeness) |
How do I authenticate with the Impact API?
Provide your Account SID as the username and Auth Token as the password using HTTP Basic authentication, or include a JWT token in the Authorization: Bearer header.
1. Get your credentials
- Log in to your Impact.com account.
- Click your user profile icon in the top navigation bar and select Settings.
- In the Settings menu, choose API.
- Copy the Account SID and Auth Token displayed on the page.
- Store these values securely; they will be used as your API credentials.
2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml
[sources.impact_source] api_key = "your_api_key_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 Impact 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 impact_pipeline.py
If everything is configured correctly, you'll see output like this:
Pipeline impact_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset impact_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/impact.duckdb location to store data Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs
Inspect your pipeline and data:
dlt pipeline impact_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 conversions and offers from the Impact 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 impact_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://api.impact.com", "auth": { "type": "api_key", "api_key": api_key, }, }, "resources": [ {"name": "conversions", "endpoint": {"path": "Advertisers/<AccountSID>/Conversions"}}, {"name": "offers", "endpoint": {"path": "Advertisers/<AccountSID>/Offers", "data_selector": "offers"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="impact_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="impact_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(impact_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("impact_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.conversions.df() print(sessions_df.head())
SQL (DuckDB example):
SELECT * FROM impact_data.conversions LIMIT 10;
In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:
import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("impact_pipeline").dataset() data.conversions.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 Impact 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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