Load xMoney data in Python using dltHub
Build a xMoney-to-database or-dataframe pipeline in Python using dlt with automatic Cursor support.
In this guide, we'll set up a complete xMoney 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 xmoney’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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Order Endpoints: Handles operations related to orders, including creating, retrieving, and managing specific orders.
/order: Endpoint to manage orders./order/{id}: Endpoint to access a specific order by its ID.
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Authentication Endpoints: Manages user authentication and session tokens.
/auth/session-token: Endpoint to obtain a session token for user authentication./auth/jwt-token: Endpoint to obtain a JWT token for secure authentication.
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Card Endpoints: Manages operations related to payment cards.
/card: Endpoint to manage cards./card/{id}: Endpoint to access a specific card by its ID.
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Customer Endpoints: Handles operations related to customer information and management.
/customer: Endpoint to manage customer data./customer/{id}: Endpoint to access a specific customer by their ID.
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Transaction Endpoints: Manages operations related to financial transactions.
/transaction: Endpoint to manage transactions./transaction/{id}: Endpoint to access a specific transaction by its ID./transaction/{transactionId}: Another endpoint variation for accessing a specific transaction by its ID.
You will then debug the xMoney 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 xMoney support.
dlt init dlthub:xmoney duckdbThe
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🤠 Start LLM-assisted coding
Here’s a prompt to get you started:
PromptPlease generate a REST API Source for xMoney API, as specified in @xmoney-docs.yaml Start with endpoints session-token and jwt-token and skip incremental loading for now. Place the code in xmoney_pipeline.py and name the pipeline xmoney_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 xmoney_pipeline.py and await further instructions. -
🔒 Set up credentials
To authenticate your requests to the xMoney API, you need to include your API key in the
Authorizationheader, which you can find in the xMoney Dashboard; the value of the header should beBearer YOUR_API_KEY.To get the appropriate API keys, please visit the original source at https://docs.xmoney.com/api/pagination. 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 xmoney_pipeline.pyIf your pipeline runs correctly, you’ll see something like the following:
Pipeline xmoney load step completed in 0.26 seconds 1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset xmoney_data The duckdb destination used duckdb:/xmoney.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 xmoney_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("xmoney_pipeline").dataset() # get "session-token" table as Pandas frame data."session-token".df().head()