Singer describes how data extraction scripts—called “taps”
—and data loading scripts—called “targets”—
should communicate, allowing them to be used in any combination
to move data from any source to any destination. Send data between databases, web APIs, files,
queues, and just about anything else you can think of.
Try it
For example, these two simple commands pull currency exchange rate data from
Exchangeratesapi.io into a CSV file:
Check out the directory of taps and targets for more data sources and destinations.
› pip install target-csv tap-exchangeratesapi
› tap-exchangeratesapi | target-csv
INFO Replicating the latest exchange rate data from exchangeratesapi.io
INFO Tap exiting normally
› cat exchange_rate.csv
AUD,BGN,BRL,CAD,CHF,CNY,CZK,DKK,GBP,HKD,HRK,HUF,IDR,ILS,INR,JPY,KRW,MXN,MYR,NOK,NZD,PHP,PLN,RON,RUB,SEK,SGD,THB,TRY,ZAR,EUR,USD,date
1.3023,1.8435,3.0889,1.3109,1.0038,6.869,25.47,7.0076,0.79652,7.7614,7.0011,290.88,13317.0,3.6988,66.608,112.21,1129.4,19.694,4.4405,8.3292,1.3867,50.198,4.0632,4.2577,58.105,8.9724,1.4037,34.882,3.581,12.915,0.9426,1.0,2017-02-24T00:00:00Z
Check out the directory of taps and targets for more data sources and destinations.
