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Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook

By : Gláucia Esppenchutz
Book Image

Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook

By: Gláucia Esppenchutz

Overview of this book

Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook offers a practical approach to designing and implementing data ingestion pipelines. It presents real-world examples with the most widely recognized open source tools on the market to answer commonly asked questions and overcome challenges. You’ll be introduced to designing and working with or without data schemas, as well as creating monitored pipelines with Airflow and data observability principles, all while following industry best practices. The book also addresses challenges associated with reading different data sources and data formats. As you progress through the book, you’ll gain a broader understanding of error logging best practices, troubleshooting techniques, data orchestration, monitoring, and storing logs for further consultation. By the end of the book, you’ll have a fully automated set that enables you to start ingesting and monitoring your data pipeline effortlessly, facilitating seamless integration with subsequent stages of the ETL process.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Fundamentals of Data Ingestion
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Part 2: Structuring the Ingestion Pipeline

Retrieving data using API authentication

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of configurations that allows two systems or applications to communicate or transmit data with each other. Its concept has been improved in recent years, allowing faster transmissions and more security with OAuth methods, preventing Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, and so on.

Its use is widely applied in data ingesting, whether to retrieve data from an application to retrieve the latest logs for analysis or from BigQuery using a cloud provider such as Google. Most applications nowadays make their data available through an API service, from which the data world gets a lot of benefits. The critical aspect here is to know how to retrieve data from an API service using the most accepted forms of authentication.

In this recipe, we will retrieve data from a public API using API key authentication, a standard method to gather data.

Getting ready

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