Stripe - Accounts Python API Docs | dltHub

Stripe is a payment infrastructure platform providing APIs to accept payments, manage accounts, payouts, and connect platform users (Connect). The REST API base URL is https://api.stripe.com and All requests require your Stripe secret key; authenticate with HTTP Basic (secret key as username) or an Authorization: Bearer <SECRET_KEY> 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 Stripe - Accounts data in under 10 minutes.

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What data can I load from Stripe - Accounts?

Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Stripe - Accounts:

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How do I authenticate with the Stripe - Accounts API?

Provide your secret API key either as HTTP Basic auth (username = <SECRET_KEY>, password blank) or in the header Authorization: Bearer <SECRET_KEY>. Content-type for POST/PUT is application/x-www-form-urlencoded; responses are JSON.

1. Get your credentials

1. Sign in to your Stripe Dashboard (https://dashboard.stripe.com). 2) Switch to the desired account and environment (Test or Live). 3) Navigate to Developers -> API keys. 4) Copy the Secret key (starts with 'sk_test_' or 'sk_live_'). 5) Keep it secret and use it as the credential in requests.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.stripe_accounts_source]
api_key = "sk_test_your_secret_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.

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How do I set up and run the pipeline?

Set up a virtual environment and install dlt:

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uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install "dlt[workspace]"

1. Install the dlt AI Workbench:

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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:

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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 Stripe - Accounts 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:

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python stripe_accounts_pipeline.py

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

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Pipeline stripe_accounts_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds
1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset stripe_accounts_data
The duckdb destination used duckdb:/stripe_accounts.duckdb location to store data
Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs

Inspect your pipeline and data:

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dlt pipeline stripe_accounts_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.

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Python pipeline example

This example loads accounts and account from the Stripe - Accounts API into DuckDB. It mirrors the endpoint and data selector configuration from the table above:

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import dlt
from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources

@dlt.source
def stripe_accounts_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://api.stripe.com",
            "auth": {
                "type": "bearer",
                "api_key": api_key,
            },
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "accounts", "endpoint": {"path": "v1/accounts", "data_selector": "data"}},
            {"name": "account_external_accounts", "endpoint": {"path": "v1/accounts/:id/external_accounts", "data_selector": "data"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def get_data() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="stripe_accounts_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="stripe_accounts_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(stripe_accounts_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.

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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):

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("stripe_accounts_pipeline").dataset()
sessions_df = data.accounts.df()
print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

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SELECT * FROM stripe_accounts_data.accounts LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("stripe_accounts_pipeline").dataset()
data.accounts.df().head()

See how to explore your data in marimo Notebooks and how to query your data in Python with dataset.

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What destinations can I load Stripe - Accounts data to?

dlt supports loading into any of these destinations — only the destination parameter changes:

Change the destination in dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. See the full destinations list.

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Troubleshooting

Authentication failures

If you receive 401 Unauthorized: check you used a valid secret key (starts with sk_test_ or sk_live_) and that the key is not expired or revoked. Use the secret key as HTTP Basic username or Authorization: Bearer header.

Rate limits

Stripe returns 429 Too Many Requests when rate limits are exceeded. Inspect Retry-After header and back off; implement exponential backoff and retry.

Pagination

List endpoints return a list object with 'object': 'list', 'data' (array), and 'has_more' boolean. Use the 'starting_after' and 'ending_before' query params to page through results; also use 'limit' to set page size.

Common API errors and validation

Stripe returns structured error objects with 'error' key for failed requests (e.g., invalid_request_error, api_error, authentication_error, rate_limit_error). Validation errors on account objects include codes such as invalid_tax_id, invalid_url_format, verification_failed_* and requirement-related errors (see Account object 'future_requirements' and 'requirements.errors').

Ensure that the API key is valid to avoid 401 Unauthorized errors. Also, verify endpoint paths and parameters to avoid 404 Not Found errors.

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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.

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dlt ai toolkit data-exploration install
dlt ai toolkit dlthub-runtime install

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• How to query your data in Python with dataset
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