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HockeyStack's API allows retrieval of account intelligence data. To use it, create an API token in the settings. The main endpoint is POST /account-intelligence for company data. The REST API base URL is https://app.hockeystack.com/integration/sales/ and all requests require a 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 HockeyStack data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from HockeyStack?

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

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
account_intelligenceaccount-intelligence?v=2POSTresult.researchReturns research data for the supplied company domain

How do I authenticate with the HockeyStack API?

Requests must include an Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN> header.

1. Get your credentials

  1. Open the API & Integrations settings page at https://app.hockeystack.com/dashboard/settings?tab=5.
  2. Click "Create a new token".
  3. Give the token a name and generate it.
  4. Copy the generated token immediately and store it securely; it cannot be viewed again.
  5. Use this token as the Bearer token in the Authorization header for all API calls.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.hockeystack_source] api_token = "your_api_token_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 HockeyStack 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 hockeystack_pipeline.py

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

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

Inspect your pipeline and data:

dlt pipeline hockeystack_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 account_intelligence and account_intelligence from the HockeyStack 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 hockeystack_source(api_token=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://app.hockeystack.com/integration/sales/", "auth": { "type": "bearer", "token": api_token, }, }, "resources": [ {"name": "account_intelligence", "endpoint": {"path": "account-intelligence?v=2", "data_selector": "result.research"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="hockeystack_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="hockeystack_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(hockeystack_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("hockeystack_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.account_intelligence.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM hockeystack_data.account_intelligence LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("hockeystack_pipeline").dataset() data.account_intelligence.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 HockeyStack 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 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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