How to load data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake

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Apify Dataset

Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that can extract structured data from any website or automate any workflow on the web. For example, imagine you found a website selling shoes and want to get a spreadsheet with all the shoe sizes, colors, prices, etc., but the website doesn't make that information accessible in tabular form. Youcould certainly manually create such a spreadsheet using copy and paste, but that would take a lot of time and cause a lot of frustration. Or you can set up Apify to do this for you in a few seconds.

AWS Datalake

An AWS Data Lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. It is designed to handle massive amounts of data from various sources, such as databases, applications, IoT devices, and more. With AWS Data Lake, you can easily ingest, store, catalog, process, and analyze data using a wide range of AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR. This allows you to build data lakes for machine learning, big data analytics, and data warehousing workloads. AWS Data Lake provides a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution for managing your organization's data.

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This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Apify Dataset as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Apify Dataset

Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that can extract structured data from any website or automate any workflow on the web. For example, imagine you found a website selling shoes and want to get a spreadsheet with all the shoe sizes, colors, prices, etc., but the website doesn't make that information accessible in tabular form. Youcould certainly manually create such a spreadsheet using copy and paste, but that would take a lot of time and cause a lot of frustration. Or you can set up Apify to do this for you in a few seconds.

What is AWS Datalake

An AWS Data Lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. It is designed to handle massive amounts of data from various sources, such as databases, applications, IoT devices, and more. With AWS Data Lake, you can easily ingest, store, catalog, process, and analyze data using a wide range of AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR. This allows you to build data lakes for machine learning, big data analytics, and data warehousing workloads. AWS Data Lake provides a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution for managing your organization's data.

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Prerequisites

  1. A Apify Dataset account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A AWS Datalake account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Apify Dataset and AWS Datalake, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake, it extracts data from Apify Dataset using the source connector, converts it into a format AWS Datalake can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into AWS Datalake via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Apify Dataset data for advanced analytics and insights within AWS Datalake, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Apify Dataset as a source connector

1. First, navigate to the Apify website and log in to your account.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the "API" tab in the top navigation bar.
3. Next, click on the "Credentials" tab and then click the "Create new token" button.
4. Give your token a name and select the appropriate permissions for your use case.
5. Copy the generated token to your clipboard.
6. Navigate to your Airbyte dashboard and click on the "Sources" tab.
7. Click on the "Add Source" button and select "Apify" from the list of available connectors.
8. In the "Connection Configuration" section, paste the token you copied from Apify into the "API Token" field.
9. Enter the name of the dataset you want to connect to in the "Dataset Name" field.
10. Click the "Test" button to ensure that the connection is successful.
11. If the test is successful, click the "Save" button to save your configuration.
12. You can now use the Apify source connector in Airbyte to extract data from your chosen dataset.

Step 2: Set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector

1. Log in to your AWS account and navigate to the AWS Management Console.
2. Click on the S3 service and create a new bucket where you will store your data.
3. Create an IAM user with the necessary permissions to access the S3 bucket. Make sure to save the access key and secret key.
4. Open Airbyte and navigate to the Destinations tab.
5. Select the AWS Datalake destination connector and click on "Create new connection".
6. Enter a name for your connection and paste the access key and secret key you saved earlier.
7. Enter the name of the S3 bucket you created in step 2 and select the region where it is located.
8. Choose the format in which you want your data to be stored in the S3 bucket (e.g. CSV, JSON, Parquet).
9. Configure any additional settings, such as compression or encryption, if necessary.
10. Test the connection to make sure it is working properly.
11. Save the connection and start syncing your data to the AWS Datalake.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Apify Dataset data to AWS Datalake

Once you've successfully connected Apify Dataset as a data source and AWS Datalake as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Apify Dataset from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose AWS Datalake from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Apify Dataset objects you want to import data from towards AWS Datalake. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your AWS Datalake data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Apify Dataset data.

Use Cases to transfer your Apify Dataset data to AWS Datalake

Integrating data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: AWS Datalake’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Apify Dataset data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Apify Dataset alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Apify Dataset, syncing to AWS Datalake allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Apify Dataset has limits on historical data. Syncing data to AWS Datalake allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: AWS Datalake provides robust data security features. Syncing Apify Dataset data to AWS Datalake ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: AWS Datalake can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Apify Dataset data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Apify Dataset data in AWS Datalake, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Apify Dataset provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to AWS Datalake, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Apify Dataset table that needs to be converted to a AWS Datalake table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Apify Dataset account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure AWS Datalake as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

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How to load data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Apify Dataset data into AWS Datalake within minutes.

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What is Apify Dataset
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TL;DR

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Apify Dataset as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Apify Dataset

Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that can extract structured data from any website or automate any workflow on the web. For example, imagine you found a website selling shoes and want to get a spreadsheet with all the shoe sizes, colors, prices, etc., but the website doesn't make that information accessible in tabular form. Youcould certainly manually create such a spreadsheet using copy and paste, but that would take a lot of time and cause a lot of frustration. Or you can set up Apify to do this for you in a few seconds.

What is AWS Datalake

An AWS Data Lake is a centralized repository that allows you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. It is designed to handle massive amounts of data from various sources, such as databases, applications, IoT devices, and more. With AWS Data Lake, you can easily ingest, store, catalog, process, and analyze data using a wide range of AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR. This allows you to build data lakes for machine learning, big data analytics, and data warehousing workloads. AWS Data Lake provides a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution for managing your organization's data.

Integrate Apify Dataset with AWS Datalake in minutes

Try for free now

Prerequisites

  1. A Apify Dataset account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A AWS Datalake account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Apify Dataset and AWS Datalake, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake, it extracts data from Apify Dataset using the source connector, converts it into a format AWS Datalake can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into AWS Datalake via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Apify Dataset data for advanced analytics and insights within AWS Datalake, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Apify Dataset as a source connector

1. First, navigate to the Apify website and log in to your account.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the "API" tab in the top navigation bar.
3. Next, click on the "Credentials" tab and then click the "Create new token" button.
4. Give your token a name and select the appropriate permissions for your use case.
5. Copy the generated token to your clipboard.
6. Navigate to your Airbyte dashboard and click on the "Sources" tab.
7. Click on the "Add Source" button and select "Apify" from the list of available connectors.
8. In the "Connection Configuration" section, paste the token you copied from Apify into the "API Token" field.
9. Enter the name of the dataset you want to connect to in the "Dataset Name" field.
10. Click the "Test" button to ensure that the connection is successful.
11. If the test is successful, click the "Save" button to save your configuration.
12. You can now use the Apify source connector in Airbyte to extract data from your chosen dataset.

Step 2: Set up AWS Datalake as a destination connector

1. Log in to your AWS account and navigate to the AWS Management Console.
2. Click on the S3 service and create a new bucket where you will store your data.
3. Create an IAM user with the necessary permissions to access the S3 bucket. Make sure to save the access key and secret key.
4. Open Airbyte and navigate to the Destinations tab.
5. Select the AWS Datalake destination connector and click on "Create new connection".
6. Enter a name for your connection and paste the access key and secret key you saved earlier.
7. Enter the name of the S3 bucket you created in step 2 and select the region where it is located.
8. Choose the format in which you want your data to be stored in the S3 bucket (e.g. CSV, JSON, Parquet).
9. Configure any additional settings, such as compression or encryption, if necessary.
10. Test the connection to make sure it is working properly.
11. Save the connection and start syncing your data to the AWS Datalake.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Apify Dataset data to AWS Datalake

Once you've successfully connected Apify Dataset as a data source and AWS Datalake as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Apify Dataset from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose AWS Datalake from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Apify Dataset objects you want to import data from towards AWS Datalake. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your AWS Datalake data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Apify Dataset data.

Use Cases to transfer your Apify Dataset data to AWS Datalake

Integrating data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: AWS Datalake’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Apify Dataset data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Apify Dataset alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Apify Dataset, syncing to AWS Datalake allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Apify Dataset has limits on historical data. Syncing data to AWS Datalake allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: AWS Datalake provides robust data security features. Syncing Apify Dataset data to AWS Datalake ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: AWS Datalake can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Apify Dataset data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Apify Dataset data in AWS Datalake, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Apify Dataset provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to AWS Datalake, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Apify Dataset table that needs to be converted to a AWS Datalake table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Apify Dataset account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure AWS Datalake as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

What should you do next?

Hope you enjoyed the reading. Here are the 3 ways we can help you in your data journey:

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AWS Datalake

Related Syncs with Apify Dataset

Apify to AWS Datalake
Apify to BigQuery
Apify to Databricks Lakehouse
Apify to Firebolt
Apify to Redshift
Apify to S3
Apify to S3 Glue
Apify to Snowflake Data Cloud
Apify to Teradata

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Frequently Asked Questions

What data can you extract from Apify Dataset?

Apify's API provides access to a wide range of data types, including:  

1. Web scraping data: Apify's web scraping tools allow users to extract data from websites and APIs, including HTML, JSON, XML, and CSV formats.  
2. Social media data: Apify's API can be used to extract data from social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, including posts, comments, and user profiles.  
3. E-commerce data: Apify's API can be used to extract data from e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, and Shopify, including product listings, prices, and reviews.  
4. Search engine data: Apify's API can be used to extract data from search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, including search results, rankings, and keyword data.  
5. Financial data: Apify's API can be used to extract financial data from sources such as stock exchanges, financial news websites, and investment platforms.  
6. Weather data: Apify's API can be used to extract weather data from sources such as weather APIs and weather news websites.  
7. Government data: Apify's API can be used to extract data from government websites and APIs, including census data, crime statistics, and public records.  

Overall, Apify's API provides access to a wide range of data types, making it a powerful tool for data extraction and analysis.

What data can you transfer to AWS Datalake?

You can transfer a wide variety of data to AWS Datalake. This usually includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data like transaction records, log files, JSON data, CSV files, and more, allowing robust, scalable data integration and analysis.

What are top ETL tools to transfer data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake?

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Apify Dataset to AWS Datalake include:

  • Airbyte
  • Fivetran
  • Stitch
  • Matillion
  • Talend Data Integration

These tools help in extracting data from Apify Dataset and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into AWS Datalake and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What should you do next?

Hope you enjoyed the reading. Here are the 3 ways we can help you in your data journey:

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Take the first step towards extensible data movement infrastructure that will give a ton of time back to your data team. 
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Connectors Used

Apify Dataset
AWS Datalake

Related Syncs with Apify Dataset

Apify to AWS Datalake
Apify to BigQuery
Apify to Databricks Lakehouse
Apify to Firebolt
Apify to Redshift
Apify to S3
Apify to S3 Glue
Apify to Snowflake Data Cloud
Apify to Teradata

Tags

APIs

Connectors Used

Apify Dataset
AWS Datalake

Related Syncs with Apify Dataset

Apify to AWS Datalake
Apify to BigQuery
Apify to Databricks Lakehouse
Apify to Firebolt
Apify to Redshift
Apify to S3
Apify to S3 Glue
Apify to Snowflake Data Cloud
Apify to Teradata

Tags

APIs