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Revolut is a financial platform offering APIs for business banking, payments, open banking, and crypto exchange. The REST API base URL is https://b2b.revolut.com/api/1.0 and Business and Merchant APIs require a Bearer token; Crypto API uses custom Ed25519 signature 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 pip install "dlt[workspace]" and start loading Revolut data in under 10 minutes.


What data can I load from Revolut?

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

ResourceEndpointMethodData selectorDescription
accounts/accountsGETList of accounts
transactions/transactionsGETtransactionsList of transactions
merchants/merchantsGETmerchantsList of merchant objects
crypto_assets/crypto/assetsGETassetsList of crypto assets
open_banking_accounts/ob/accountsGETaccountsOpen Banking accounts list

How do I authenticate with the Revolut API?

Business and Merchant APIs authenticate via an Authorization: Bearer <access_token> header. Crypto API authenticates with X-Revx-API-Key, X-Revx-Timestamp, and X-Revx-Signature headers signed with your private Ed25519 key.

1. Get your credentials

  1. Log into the Revolut Business dashboard.
  2. Navigate to API & IntegrationsAPI Keys.
  3. Create a new API key (for Merchant) or generate a JWT client assertion (for Business).
  4. Exchange the JWT or authorization code for an access token via POST https://b2b.revolut.com/api/1.0/auth/token.
  5. For the Crypto API, go to the Revolut X web app, generate a 64‑character API key and an Ed25519 key pair.
  6. Store the obtained credentials securely for use in dlt configuration.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

[sources.revolut_source] api_key = "your_api_key_here" access_token = "your_access_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 Revolut 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 revolut_pipeline.py

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

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

Inspect your pipeline and data:

dlt pipeline revolut_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 accounts and transactions from the Revolut 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 revolut_source(api_key=dlt.secrets.value): config: RESTAPIConfig = { "client": { "base_url": "https://b2b.revolut.com/api/1.0", "auth": { "type": "bearer", "token": api_key, }, }, "resources": [ {"name": "accounts", "endpoint": {"path": "accounts"}}, {"name": "transactions", "endpoint": {"path": "transactions", "data_selector": "transactions"}} ], } yield from rest_api_resources(config) def get_data() -> None: pipeline = dlt.pipeline( pipeline_name="revolut_pipeline", destination="duckdb", dataset_name="revolut_data", ) load_info = pipeline.run(revolut_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("revolut_pipeline").dataset() sessions_df = data.accounts.df() print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

SELECT * FROM revolut_data.accounts LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

import dlt data = dlt.pipeline("revolut_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.


What destinations can I load Revolut 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.


Troubleshooting

Authentication failures

When the access token is missing, invalid, or expired the API returns 401 Unauthorized with a body similar to { "message": "The request should be authorized." }.

Rate limiting

If the client exceeds the allowed request rate the API may respond with 429 Too Many Requests. Implement exponential back‑off and respect the Retry‑After header.

Pagination

List endpoints return a subset of results. Use query parameters such as page and per_page to iterate through all pages.

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


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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