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

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Redox is an interoperability platform that provides APIs for exchanging healthcare data and managing organization configurations. The REST API base URL is https://api.redoxengine.com and all requests require a Bearer token in the Authorization 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 add "dlt[hub]" and start loading Redox data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from Redox?

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

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
organizations/platform/organizationsGETpayload.recordsList organizations for the account
sources/platform/sourcesGETpayload.recordsList sources (connections) for the organization
source_links/platform/source-linksGETpayload.recordsRetrieve sources linked to the organization
logs/platform/logsGETpayload.recordsRetrieve system logs
environments/platform/environmentsGETpayload.recordsList environments for the organization

How do I authenticate with the Redox API?

The Redox API uses OAuth 2.0 Bearer authentication. Requests must include an Authorization header with the format 'Authorization: Bearer {access_token}', where the access token is obtained via an authentication request.

1. Get your credentials

  1. Log in to the Redox dashboard. 2. Navigate to the Developer page in the main menu. 3. Ensure the Sources tab is active (default). 4. Click the 'New OAuth API key' button to create a new key, or click 'Edit' next to an existing one. 5. In the API key details modal, provide a name for the key. 6. Once created, the Settings page will display the 'Client ID'. 7. Choose to either generate a new private/public key pair within the dashboard or provide your own public key. 8. Store the resulting Client ID and private key securely.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.redox_source] redox_client_id = "YOUR_CLIENT_ID" redox_private_key = "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n...\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"

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 Redox 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 redox_pipeline.py

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

Pipeline redox_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset redox_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/redox.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 https://api.redoxengine.com/v2/auth/token and https://api.redoxengine.com/platform/{endpoint} from the Redox 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 redox_source(access_token=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://api.redoxengine.com", "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": access_token}, }, "resources": [ {"name": "organizations", "endpoint": {"path": "platform/organizations", "data_selector": "payload.records"}}, {"name": "sources", "endpoint": {"path": "platform/sources", "data_selector": "payload.records"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="redox_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="redox_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(redox_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("redox_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.logs.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM redox_data.logs LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("redox_pipeline").dataset() data.logs.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 Redox 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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