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Build a Incogniton-to-database pipeline in Python using dlt with AI Workbench support for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
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Incogniton API documentation includes a Quickstart guide, an Introduction, and an API Reference. The API uses Incogniton SDK with Playwright for browser automation. Scraping with Incogniton involves navigating and extracting content. The REST API base URL is https://api.incogniton.com and all requests require an API key in the X-API-Key request header.
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 Incogniton data in under 10 minutes.
What data can I load from Incogniton?
Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Incogniton:
| Resource | Endpoint | Method | Data selector | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| profiles | /profile/all | GET | profiles | List all browser profiles for the account |
| profile | /profile/get/{profile_id} | GET | profileData | Get detailed profile information for a single profile |
| profile_status | /profile/status/{profile_id} | GET | status | Get current profile status (ready, launching, launched, syncing, etc.) |
| profile_launch | /profile/launch/{profile_id} | GET | (top-level) | Launch a profile (returns message/status) |
| profile_stop | /profile/stop/{profile_id} | GET | (top-level) | Stop a launched profile |
| profile_delete | /profile/delete/{profile_id} | GET | (top-level) | Delete a profile |
| cookies | /profile/cookie/{profile_id} | GET | CookieData | Retrieve cookies for a profile (CookieData array) |
| automation_puppeteer | /automation/launch/puppeteer/{profile_id} | GET | (top-level) | Launch Puppeteer automation for a profile (returns puppeteerUrl/status) |
| automation_selenium | /automation/launch/python/{profile_id} | GET | (top-level) | Launch Selenium/Python automation for a profile |
How do I authenticate with the Incogniton API?
Incogniton uses an API key passed in the X-API-Key HTTP header (or Authorization: Bearer in some SDK examples). Include the header on every request.
1. Get your credentials
- Sign in to your Incogniton account. 2) Open the Dashboard → Settings → API or Integrations section. 3) Create or view an API key/token and copy it. 4) Use this key as the X-API-Key header or place it in your dlt secrets configuration.
2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml
[sources.incogniton_source] api_key = "your_incogniton_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 Incogniton 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 incogniton_pipeline.py
If everything is configured correctly, you'll see output like this:
Pipeline incogniton_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset incogniton_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/incogniton.duckdb location to store data Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs
Inspect your pipeline and data:
dlt pipeline incogniton_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 profiles and cookies from the Incogniton 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 incogniton_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://api.incogniton.com", "auth": { "type": "api_key", "api_key": api_key, }, }, "resources": [ {"name": "profiles", "endpoint": {"path": "profile/all", "data_selector": "profiles"}}, {"name": "cookies", "endpoint": {"path": "profile/cookie/{profile_id}", "data_selector": "CookieData"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="incogniton_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="incogniton_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(incogniton_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("incogniton_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.profiles.df() print(sessions_df.head())
SQL (DuckDB example):
SELECT * FROM incogniton_data.profiles LIMIT 10;
In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:
import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("incogniton_pipeline").dataset() data.profiles.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 Incogniton 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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