Load Marigold Engage Delivery Cloud data in Python using dltHub
Build a Marigold Engage Delivery Cloud-to-database or-dataframe pipeline in Python using dlt with automatic Cursor support.
In this guide, we'll set up a complete Marigold Engage Delivery Cloud data pipeline from API credentials to your first data load in just 10 minutes. You'll end up with a fully declarative Python pipeline based on dlt's REST API connector, like in the partial example code below:
Example code
Why use dltHub Workspace with LLM Context to generate Python pipelines?
- Accelerate pipeline development with AI-native context
- Debug pipelines, validate schemas and data with the integrated Pipeline Dashboard
- Build Python notebooks for end users of your data
- Low maintenance thanks to Schema evolution with type inference, resilience and self documenting REST API connectors. A shallow learning curve makes the pipeline easy to extend by any team member
- dlt is the tool of choice for Pythonic Iceberg Lakehouses, bringing mature data loading to pythonic Iceberg with or without catalogs
What you’ll do
We’ll show you how to generate a readable and easily maintainable Python script that fetches data from marigold_engage_delivery_cloud’s API and loads it into Iceberg, DataFrames, files, or a database of your choice. Here are some of the endpoints you can load:
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Deadletters: Endpoints related to managing deadletter messages, including retrieving and managing messages that could not be processed.
/dev/api/webhooks/v1/admin/deadletters: Access the list of deadletter messages./dev/api/webhooks/v1/admin/deadletters/{subscriptionId}: Access deadletters specific to a particular subscription.
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Subscriptions: Endpoints for managing webhook subscriptions.
/dev/api/webhooks/v1/admin/subscriptions: Retrieve or manage all webhook subscriptions./dev/api/webhooks/v1/admin/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}: Access or manage a specific webhook subscription by its ID.
You will then debug the Marigold Engage Delivery Cloud pipeline using our Pipeline Dashboard tool to ensure it is copying the data correctly, before building a Notebook to explore your data and build reports.
Setup & steps to follow
💡Before getting started, let's make sure Cursor is set up correctly:
- We suggest using a model like Claude 3.7 Sonnet or better
- Index the REST API Source tutorial: https://dlthub.com/docs/dlt-ecosystem/verified-sources/rest_api/ and add it to context as @dlt rest api
- Read our full steps on setting up Cursor
Now you're ready to get started!
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⚙️ Set up
dltWorkspaceInstall dlt with duckdb support:
pip install "dlt[workspace]"Initialize a dlt pipeline with Marigold Engage Delivery Cloud support.
dlt init dlthub:marigold_engage_delivery_cloud duckdbThe
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🤠 Start LLM-assisted coding
Here’s a prompt to get you started:
PromptPlease generate a REST API Source for Marigold Engage Delivery Cloud API, as specified in @marigold_engage_delivery_cloud-docs.yaml Start with endpoints deadletters and subscriptions and skip incremental loading for now. Place the code in marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_pipeline.py and name the pipeline marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_pipeline. If the file exists, use it as a starting point. Do not add or modify any other files. Use @dlt rest api as a tutorial. After adding the endpoints, allow the user to run the pipeline with python marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_pipeline.py and await further instructions. -
🔒 Set up credentials
You need to refer to the guides for authentication methods, specifically the API key authentication for Engage (guides/smc/api-key-authentication/) and OAuth authentication for Engage Delivery Cloud (guides/sdc/oauth-access-token/).
To get the appropriate API keys, please visit the original source at https://developers.meetmarigold.com/engage/api/sdc. If you want to protect your environment secrets in a production environment, look into setting up credentials with dlt.
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🏃♀️ Run the pipeline in the Python terminal in Cursor
python marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_pipeline.pyIf your pipeline runs correctly, you’ll see something like the following:
Pipeline marigold_engage_delivery_cloud load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/marigold_engage_delivery_cloud.duckdb location to store data Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs -
📈 Debug your pipeline and data with the Pipeline Dashboard
Now that you have a running pipeline, you need to make sure it’s correct, so you do not introduce silent failures like misconfigured pagination or incremental loading errors. By launching the dlt Workspace Pipeline Dashboard, you can see various information about the pipeline to enable you to test it. Here you can see:
- Pipeline overview: State, load metrics
- Data’s schema: tables, columns, types, hints
- You can query the data itself
dlt pipeline marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_pipeline show -
🐍 Build a Notebook with data explorations and reports
With the pipeline and data partially validated, you can continue with custom data explorations and reports. To get started, paste the snippet below into a new marimo Notebook and ask your LLM to go from there. Jupyter Notebooks and regular Python scripts are supported as well.
import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("marigold_engage_delivery_cloud_pipeline").dataset() # get "deadletters" table as Pandas frame data."deadletters".df().head()