How to load data from News API to Starburst Galaxy

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your News API data into Starburst Galaxy within minutes.

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Set up a News API connector in Airbyte

Connect to News API or one of 400+ pre-built or 10,000+ custom connectors through simple account authentication.

Set up Starburst Galaxy for your extracted News API data

Select Starburst Galaxy where you want to import data from your News API source to. You can also choose other cloud data warehouses, databases, data lakes, vector databases, or any other supported Airbyte destinations.

Configure the News API to Starburst Galaxy in Airbyte

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in the destination you want that data to be loaded.

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How to Sync News API to Starburst Galaxy Manually

First, you need an API key from News API. Register on the News API website and obtain your API key. This key will be required to authenticate your requests and fetch data from the News API.

Use a scripting language like Python to make HTTP GET requests to the News API endpoints. Use the `requests` library in Python to retrieve the data. Ensure to include your API key in the request headers for authentication. Store the fetched data in a suitable data structure such as a list of dictionaries or a JSON object.

Once the data is fetched, transform it into a structured format suitable for loading into Starburst Galaxy. This may involve selecting specific fields, renaming them, or converting data types. Use Python’s built-in capabilities or libraries like `pandas` to clean and prepare your data.

Convert the structured data into a CSV format, which is compatible with Starburst Galaxy's data loading capabilities. Use the `pandas` library to create a DataFrame from your structured data and then use the `to_csv()` method to write it to a local file or a temporary storage location.

Starburst Galaxy can access data stored in cloud storage like AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage. Choose a cloud storage service and upload your CSV file to a bucket or container there. Ensure your cloud storage permissions allow Starburst Galaxy to access the data.

In Starburst Galaxy, set up a catalog to access the cloud storage where your CSV file is located. Configure the necessary connection properties like the access key, secret key, and bucket/container name. Ensure Starburst Galaxy has the required permissions to read from your cloud storage.

Once the catalog is configured, use SQL queries within Starburst Galaxy to load the data from the cloud storage into a table in Starburst Galaxy. Execute a `CREATE TABLE AS SELECT` statement or a similar command to import the data, ensuring the table schema matches the CSV structure.

By following these steps, you can successfully move data from News API to Starburst Galaxy without relying on third-party connectors or integrations.

How to Sync News API to Starburst Galaxy Manually - Method 2:

FAQs

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

The News API gives a lot of flexibility in how you create and manage your news content. This connector is a simple and easy-to-use REST API that offers JSON search results for recent and historical news articles published by over 80,000 sources worldwide. As a result, you can quickly show trending news headlines in your web application. Also, combining the Google News API is very easy. API is short for application programming interface, which is a software intermediary that permits two applications to talk to each other.

News API provides access to a wide range of data related to news articles and sources. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through News API's API:  

1. News articles: News API provides access to articles from various news sources around the world. These articles can be filtered by language, country, and category.  
2. News sources: News API provides a list of news sources that can be used to filter articles. These sources can be filtered by language, country, and category.  
3. Top headlines: News API provides access to the top headlines from various news sources around the world. These headlines can be filtered by language, country, and category.  
4. Search results: News API provides access to search results based on a keyword or phrase. These search results can be filtered by language, country, and category.  
5. Article metadata: News API provides metadata for each article, including the title, author, description, URL, and published date.  
6. Image URLs: News API provides access to the URLs of images associated with each article.  
7. Article content: News API provides access to the full content of each article, including the text and any embedded media.

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 News API to Starburst Galaxy as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Choose a destination (more than 50 available destination databases, data warehouses or lakes) to sync data too and set it up as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer from News API to Starburst Galaxy and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

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