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 "schema_version": 1,
 "generated": "2026-11-01",
 "id": "dlt-hub-dlt--load-a-rest-api-into-duckdb-with-dlt",
 "repo": "dlt-hub/dlt",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/dlt-hub/dlt",
 "repo_slug": "dlt-hub-dlt",
 "title": "Pull a REST API into a local database",
 "page_title": "How to pull a REST API into a local database with DLT",
 "summary": "Describe an API declaratively and let DLT handle requests, pagination, schema inference and typing.",
 "who": "A developer who needs API data in a queryable table today.",
 "problem": "Hand written extract scripts break on pagination and schema changes.",
 "outcome": "A DuckDB dataset you can query, plus a DataFrame of the loaded table.",
 "steps": [
  "Install the library and the destination extra with `pip install dlt` and `pip install \"dlt[duckdb]\"`",
  "Build a source with rest_api_source, giving the client base_url and a resource with its endpoint path",
  "Create the pipeline with DLT.pipeline, naming pipeline_name, destination and dataset_name, then call pipeline.run(source)",
  "Read the data straight back with pipeline.dataset() and .df()"
 ],
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  "codex",
  "cursor",
  "gemini-cli"
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 "difficulty": "Beginner",
 "time": "45 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "Add the matching extra for any other destination, for example DLT[bigquery] or DLT[s3].",
 "category": "Data and analytics",
 "tags": [
  "Data and analytics"
 ],
 "lang": "",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.10 through 3.14, with 3.14 support described as experimental",
  "`pip install dlt` plus the extras for your sources and destinations",
  "Credentials for your destination in secrets.toml or environment variables"
 ],
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 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
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   "tag": "credentials",
   "notice": "Source and destination credentials come from secrets.toml or environment variables, so keep them out of your code."
  }
 ],
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