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Mambu is a cloud banking platform providing a REST API for core banking operations and management. The REST API base URL is https://TENANT_NAME.mambu.com/api and supports Basic authentication or API key authentication via headers.

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 Mambu data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from Mambu?

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

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
users/usersGETRetrieve a list of users
loans/loansGETRetrieve a list of loan accounts
deposits/depositsGETRetrieve a list of deposit accounts
branches/branchesGETRetrieve a list of branches
centers/centersGETRetrieve a list of centers

How do I authenticate with the Mambu API?

Mambu supports Basic authentication, which requires an Authorization header with a Base64-encoded 'username

' string prefixed by 'Basic '. Alternatively, API keys are passed in the 'apiKey' header.

1. Get your credentials

To generate API keys, you must use the API Consumers feature. Navigate to Administration > Access > API Consumers in the Mambu UI. Select 'Add consumer' to create a new API consumer, then select 'Actions' > 'Manage keys' for the created consumer. Click 'Generate' in the Manage Keys dialog to create a new API key. Note that this may be an Early Access feature depending on your contract, requiring contact with your Mambu Customer Success Manager. Alternative basic authentication uses Mambu UI login credentials (username and password) sent via the 'Authorization' header as a base64-encoded 'username

' string.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.mambu_source] mambu_base_url = "https://your-tenant-name.mambu.com" mambu_api_key = "your-api-key-here" # If using basic auth instead: # mambu_username = "your-username" # mambu_password = "your-password"

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 Mambu 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 mambu_pipeline.py

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

Pipeline mambu_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset mambu_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/mambu.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 /users and /loans from the Mambu 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 mambu_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://TENANT_NAME.mambu.com/api", "auth": {"type": "http_basic", "username": "REPLACE_ME", "password": api_key}, }, "resources": [ {"name": "loan_transactions_search", "endpoint": {"path": "loans/transactions:search"}}, {"name": "journal_entries_search", "endpoint": {"path": "gljournalentries:search"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="mambu_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="mambu_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(mambu_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("mambu_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.loans_transactions_search.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM mambu_data.loans_transactions_search LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("mambu_pipeline").dataset() data.loans_transactions_search.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 Mambu 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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