castor-extractor 0.24.4

Extract your metadata assets.

Castor Extractor

This library contains utilities to extract your metadata assets into JSON or CSV files, on your local machine. After extraction, those files can be pushed to Castor for ingestion.

• Visualization assets are typically:

  • dashboards
  • users
  • folders
  • ...

• Warehouse assets are typically:

  • databases
  • schemas
  • tables
  • columns
  • queries
  • ...

It also embeds utilities to help you push your metadata to Castor:

• File Checker to validate your generic CSV files before pushing to Castor
• Uploader to push extracted files to our Google-Cloud-Storage (GCS)

Table of contents

• Castor Extractor
  • Table of contents
  • Installation
    • Create castor-env
    • PIP install
    • Create the output directory
  • Contact

Installation

Requirements: python3.9+

Create castor-env

We advise to create a dedicated Python environment.

Here's an example using Pyenv:

• Install Pyenv

brew install pyenv
brew install pyenv-virtualenv

• [optional] Update your .bashrc if you encounter this issue

eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv init --path)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

• [optional] Install python 3.9+ if needed

pyenv versions # check your local python installations

# install Python if none of the installed versions satisfy requirements 3.9+
# in this example, we will install Python 3.11.9
pyenv install -v 3.11.9

• Create your virtual env

pyenv virtualenv 3.11.9 castor-env # create a dedicated env
pyenv shell castor-env # activate the environment

# optional checks
python --version # should be `3.11.9`
pyenv version # should be `castor-env`

PIP install

⚠️ castor-env must be created AND activated first.

pyenv shell castor-env
(castor-env) $ # this means the environment is now active

ℹ️ please upgrade PIP before installing Castor.

pip install --upgrade pip

Run the following command to install castor-extractor:

pip install castor-extractor

Depending on your use case, you can also install one of the following extras:

pip install castor-extractor[bigquery]
pip install castor-extractor[databricks]
pip install castor-extractor[looker]
pip install castor-extractor[lookerstudio]
pip install castor-extractor[metabase]
pip install castor-extractor[mysql]
pip install castor-extractor[powerbi]
pip install castor-extractor[qlik]
pip install castor-extractor[postgres]
pip install castor-extractor[redshift]
pip install castor-extractor[snowflake]
pip install castor-extractor[sqlserver]
pip install castor-extractor[tableau]

Create the output directory

mkdir /tmp/castor

You will provide this path in the extraction scripts as follows:

castor-extract-bigquery --output=/tmp/castor

Alternatively, you can also set the following ENV in your bashrc:

export CASTOR_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY="/tmp/castor"

Contact

For any questions or bug report, contact us at [e-mail]

Castor helps you find, understand, use your data assets

Changelog

0.24.4 - 2025-03-19

• Snowflake:
  • improve the list of ignored queries in the query history extraction
    • ignore the following query types : CALL, COMMENT, EXPLAIN, REFRESH_DYNAMIC_TABLE_AT_REFRESH_VERSION, REVOKE, TRUNCATE_TABLE, UNDROP
    • ignore queries with empty text
  • filter out schemas with empty names

0.24.3 - 2025-03-18

• Replace ThoughtSpot endpoint /api/rest/2.0/report/liveboard with /api/rest/2.0/metadata/liveboard/data following the deprecation of the CSV option

0.24.2 - 2025-03-17

• Rename Revamped Tableau Connector classes

0.24.1 - 2025-03-14

• Added support for Looker Studio

0.24.0 - 2025-03-10

• Remove legacy Tableau Connector

0.23.3 - 2025-02-19

• Snowflake : add --insecure-mode option to turn off OCSP checking

0.23.2 - 2025-02-17

• support page_size in Tableau extraction command

0.23.1 - 2025-02-10

• change command for Confluence from password to token to reflect better their documentation

0.22.6 - 2025-01-21

• bump dependencies: looker, databricks, deptry, ...

0.22.5 - 2025-01-09

• Databricks: validate and deduplicate lineage links

0.22.4 - 2025-01-08

• ThoughtSpot: extract answers

0.22.3 - 2024-12-10

• Databricks: extract lineage from system tables

0.22.2 - 2024-12-06

• Sigma: multithreading to retrieve lineage

0.22.1 - 2024-12-05

• Salesforce: deduplicate tables

0.22.0 - 2024-12-04

• Stop supporting python3.8

0.21.9 - 2024-12-04

• Tableau: fix handling of timeout retry

0.21.8 - 2024-11-26

• Redshift: improve deduplication of columns

0.21.7 - 2024-11-26

• Metabase: stop using deprecated table view_log

0.21.6 - 2024-11-22

• bump dependencies: ruff, setuptools

0.21.5 - 2024-11-20

• PostgreSQL: Fix schema extraction when owner is a role without login privilege

0.21.4 - 2024-11-20

• Uploader: Support environment variables as settings

0.21.3 - 2024-11-07

• Tableau: Fix metrics definition url

0.21.2 - 2024-11-06

• Adding fetch method for confluence client

0.21.1 - 2024-10-23

• Warning message to deprecate python < 3.9

0.21.0 - 2024-10-23

• Confluence: Added Confluence extractor

0.20.8 - 2024-10-19

• bump dependencies (minor and patches)

0.20.7 - 2024-10-18

• Metabase: fix require_ssl type in credentials

0.20.6 - 2024-10-15

• Tableau: include site_id in workbooks to build url

0.20.5 - 2024-10-09

• Redshift: enable extraction from a Redshift Serverless instance

0.20.4 - 2024-10-09

• Salesforce warehouse: Labels instead of api_names for columns

0.20.3 - 2024-10-03

• Looker: no longer extract as_html dashboard elements

0.20.2 - 2024-09-24

• Thoughtspot: Adding connector

0.20.1 - 2024-09-23

• Power BI: Improved client based on APIClient

0.20.0 - 2024-09-23

• Switch to Tableau revamped connector

0.19.9 - 2024-09-19

• Databricks: multithreading to retrieve column lineage

0.19.8 - 2024-09-18

• Metabase: Handle duplicate dashboards
• Snowflake: Exclude unnamed tables from extraction
• Bump dependencies: cryptography, setuptools

0.19.7 - 2024-09-05

• Metabase: Handle compatibility with older version

0.19.6 - 2024-09-03

• Metabase: Adding error handler on API call

0.19.5 - 2024-09-02

• Databricks/Salesforce: Remove deprecated client dependencies

0.19.4 - 2024-08-29

• Tableau Pulse: extract Metrics and Subscriptions

0.19.3 - 2024-08-27

• Sigma: Add SafeMode to SigmaClient

0.19.2 - 2024-08-23

• Reworked APIClient to unify client's behaviours

Impacted Technologies: Sigma, Soda, Notion

0.19.1 - 2024-08-23

• Domo: extract datasources via cards metadata endpoint

0.19.0 - 2024-08-21

• Breaking change Looker CLI:

-u and --username changed to -c --client-id

-p and --password changed to -s --client-secret

• Breaking change Metabase CLI:

-u and --username changed to -u --user

• Note: if you use environment variables you shouldn't be impacted

0.18.13 - 2024-08-19

• Qlik: improve measures extraction

0.18.12 - 2024-08-19

• Bumps: looker-sdk: 24, setuptools: 72

0.18.11 - 2023-08-14

• Linting and formatting with Ruff

0.18.10 - 2024-08-13

• Soda: Added Soda extractor (Castor-Managed integration only)

0.18.9 - 2024-08-12

• Notion: Added Notion extractor

0.18.8 - 2024-08-02

• Databricks: more reliable extraction of queries

0.18.7 - 2024-08-01

• Salesforce: extract table descriptions

0.18.6 - 2024-07-30

• BigQuery: introduce extended regions to extract missing queries

0.18.5 - 2024-07-17

• Salesforce: extract DeveloperName and tooling url

0.18.4 - 2024-07-16

• Fix environment variables assignments for credentials

0.18.3 - 2024-07-16

• bump dependencies (minor and patches)

0.18.2 - 2024-07-08

• Added StatusCode handling to SafeMode

0.18.1 - 2024-07-04

• Bump dependencies: numpy, setuptools, tableauserverclient

0.18.0 - 2024-07-03

• Dashboarding technologies : Reworked credentials using Pydantic

0.17.5 - 2024-07-03

• Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift: Remove default_value from the extracted column

0.17.4 - 2024-07-03

• Sigma: Add input-table, pivot-table and viz in the list of supported Elements

0.17.3 - 2024-06-24

• Databricks: extract tags for tables and column

0.17.2 - 2024-06-14

• Uploader: support multipart

0.17.1 - 2024-06-12

• Databricks: extract table source links

0.17.0 - 2024-06-10

• Uploader: redirect to the proxy, replace credentials with token

0.16.15 - 2024-06-07

• Tableau: extract database_name for CustomSQLTables

0.16.14 - 2024-06-06

• Snowflake: Extract SQL user defined function

0.16.13 - 2024-06-05

• Tableau: extract database_name for tables

0.16.12 - 2024-06-04

• Databricks: Extract lineage

0.16.11 - 2024-06-03

• Tableau: add extra fields to optimise storage

0.16.10 - 2024-05-30

• Salesforce: extract sobjects Label as table name

0.16.9 - 2024-05-28

• Tableau: extract only fields that are necessary

0.16.8 - 2024-05-21

• Add compatibility with python 3.12
• Looker: Bump looker-sdk and refactor client

0.16.7 - 2024-05-16

• Databricks: allow no emails on user

0.16.6 - 2024-05-14

• Introducing the revamped connector for Tableau

0.16.5 - 2024-04-25

• Salesforce: remove DeploymentStatus from EntityDefinition query

0.16.4 - 2024-04-25

• Salesforce: extract sobjects and fields

0.16.3 - 2024-04-24

• Databricks: Extract table owners

0.16.2 - 2024-04-09

• PowerBI: Extract pages from report

0.16.1 - 2024-04-02

• Systematically escape nul bytes on CSV write

0.16.0 - 2024-03-26

• Use pydantic v2

0.15.4 - 2024-03-25

• Pagination: Fix behavior when next page token is missing

0.15.3 - 2024-03-08

• Sigma: Regenerate token when expired

0.15.2 - 2024-03-01

• DBT: Add host base URL, use of BaseSettings for DbtCredentials

0.15.1 - 2024-03-06

• Salesforce: extract dashboard components

0.15.0 - 2024-03-01

• Support Databricks Unity Catalog extraction

0.14.14 - 2024-02-27

• Salesforce: Fix on salesforce folders URL

0.14.13 - 2024-02-15

• Domo client: Handles cases where datasources aren't linked to any cards

0.14.12 - 2024-02-13

• Domo client: No longer raise 400 exception upon API calls

0.14.11 - 2024-02-13

• BigQuery client: Use partitioned creation_time instead of start_time

0.14.10 - 2024-02-08

• Metabase ApiClient: Remove GET /api/dashboard that is deprecated

0.14.9 - 2024-02-07

• Add support for python 3.11

0.14.8 - 2024-02-06

• Salesforce client: extracting folders

0.14.7 - 2024-02-05

• Domo: ignore 404 errors on datasources API endpoint

0.14.6 - 2024-01-31

• Bump dependencies

0.14.5 - 2024-01-31

• Allow support of external lineage for non-generic technologies

0.14.4 - 2024-01-30

• Salesforce client: Renaming salesforce viz to salesforce reporting

0.14.3 - 2024-01-29

• Domo: enhance pages with card's datasources to support direct tables lineage

0.14.2 - 2024-01-25

• Salesforce client: Methods to extract users, dashboards and reports

0.14.1 - 2024-01-24

• Add sensitive metadata information to credentials dataclass

0.14.0 - 2024-01-24

• Adding Salesforce client

0.13.0 - 2024-01-22

• Support MySQL catalog extraction

0.12.3 - 2024-01-16

• Metabase: renaming of dashboard_cards for Metabase 0.48

0.12.2 - 2023-12-27

• Metabase: Align postgres connection to postgres connector

0.12.1 - 2023-12-27

• Tableau: replace luid with id during dashboards extraction

0.12.0 - 2023-12-18

• SQL Server: extract catalog

0.11.3 - 2023-12-21

• Metabase: Support postgres connection via SSL

0.11.2 - 2023-12-20

• Extract: remove null byte characters

0.11.1 - 2023-12-20

• Fixed bug with jitter argument in Retry class and added field validations

0.11.0 - 2023-12-18

• Tableau: extract dashboards

0.10.2 - 2023-12-13

• Redshift: Handle rows with mixed encodings

0.10.1 - 2023-12-04

• Domo: fix pagination

0.10.0 - 2023-11-28

• Looker : extract all Looker Explores, even if unused in Dashboards

0.9.2 - 2023-11-23

• Looker : remove deprecated all_looks parameter

0.9.1 - 2023-11-22

• Redshift : filter out queries exceeding 65535 char

0.9.0 - 2023-11-20

• Snowflake : Add key-pair authentication

0.8.1 - 2023-11-15

• Add a logging option to log to stdout

0.8.0 - 2023-11-09

• Stream Looker Looks and Dashboards directly into their destination files

0.7.8 - 2023-11-02

• Rollback escapechar in csv options

0.7.7 - 2023-10-30

• Add escapechar in csv de-serialization

0.7.6 - 2023-10-26

• Fetch Domo audits up to yesterday date

0.7.5 - 2023-10-26

• Add escapechar in csv serialisation

0.7.4 - 2023-10-23

• Pick the most recent sharded tables in BigQuery

0.7.3 - 2023-10-19

• Add retry mechanism to LookerClient when multithreading

0.7.2 - 2023-10-19

• pycryptodome moved as an optional dependency for extras: metabase and all

0.7.1 - 2023-10-04

• Fix thread pool size verification

0.7.0 - 2023-10-02

• Add option to fetch Looker Looks & Dashboards per folder

0.6.3 - 2023-10-02

• Add refreshing mechanism for Domo authentication tokens

0.6.2 - 2023-09-29

• Update field_size_limit in CSVFormatter

0.6.1 - 2023-09-25

• Add support for Domo

0.6.0 - 2023-09-25

• Move msal dependencies to powerbi extra

0.5.10 - 2023-09-25

• Retrieve column_id instead of object_id for Snowflake column tags

0.5.9 - 2023-09-21

• Add column tags for Snowflake

0.5.8 - 2023-09-19

• Remove non-used dependencies
• Fix some import in tests
• Clean pyproject.toml
• Add deptry config

0.5.7 - 2023-08-17

• Update column data type validator

0.5.6 - 2023-08-10

• Use latest version of certifi (2023.7.22)

0.5.5 - 2023-08-07

• Linting with flakeheaven

0.5.4 - 2023-08-01

• Add support for Looker's Users Attributes

0.5.3 - 2023-07-27

• Add support for PowerBI's Activity Events

0.5.2 - 2023-07-12

• Fix Metabase DbClient url

0.5.1 - 2023-07-03

• Add support for Looker's ContentViews

0.5.0 - 2023-06-28

• Stop supporting python3.7

0.4.1 - 2023-06-27

• Fix on Sigma elements extraction
• Fix BigQuery dataset extraction
• Fix the File Checker for View DDL file

0.4.0 - 2023-06-12

• Added support for Sigma

0.3.8 - 2023-05-02

• Added support for PowerBI datasets and fields

0.3.7 - 2023-04-28

• Warning message to deprecate python < 3.8

0.3.6 - 2023-04-24

• Update enum keys for Metabase credentials

0.3.5 - 2023-04-07

• Extract metadata from successful dbt runs only

0.3.4 - 2023-04-05

• Enhance uploader to support QUALITY files

0.3.3 - 2023-04-04

• Tableau : Improve Table <> Datasource lineage

0.3.2 - 2023-04-04

• Allow COPY statements from Snowflake

0.3.1 - 2023-03-30

• Improved Field extraction in Tableau

0.3.0 - 2023-03-29

• Added Tableau datasource and field integration

0.2.3 - 2023-03-17

• Verify required admin permissions for Looker extraction

0.2.2 - 2023-03-13

• Constraint setuptools explicitly added

0.2.1 - 2023-02-23

• Constrain google-cloud-bigquery dependency below yanked 3.0.0

0.2.0 - 2023-02-13

• Add connector for dbt-cloud

0.1.2 - 2023-02-08

• Enhance Looker extraction of dashboard filters and groups with roles

0.1.1 - 2023-02-06

• Add Looker support to extract groups-related assets
• Enhance Looker extraction of dashboard elements and users

0.1.0 - 2023-01-17

• Upgrade to Python 3.8
• Upgrade dependencies

0.0.44 - 2023-01-02

• Introduce new extractor for visualization tool PowerBi with support for
  • reports
  • dashboards
  • metadata

0.0.43 - 2022-12-21

• Update package dependencies

0.0.42 - 2022-11-25

• Improve pagination

0.0.41 - 2022-10-26

• Tableau: Optional site-id argument for Tableau Server users

0.0.40 - 2022-10-25

• Fix command file_check

0.0.39 - 2022-10-24

• Fix FileChecker template for GenericWarehouse.view_ddl

0.0.38 - 2022-10-17

• Snowflake: extract warehouse_size

0.0.37 - 2022-10-14

• Allow to skip "App size exceeded" error while fetching Qlik measures
• Fix missing arguments warehouse and role passing for script extract_snowflake

0.0.36 - 2022-10-13

• Patch error in Looker explore names

0.0.35 - 2022-10-12

• Add safe mode to Looker

0.0.34 - 2022-10-11

• Fix extras dependencies

0.0.33 - 2022-10-10

• Migrate package generation to poetry

0.0.32 - 2022-10-07

• Improved logging

0.0.31 - 2022-10-05

• Safe mode for bigquery and file logger

0.0.30 - 2022-09-20

• Add Qlik support to extract connections assets

0.0.29 - 2022-08-31

• Switch to engine's connect for database connections

0.0.28 - 2022-07-29

• Widen dependencies ranges

0.0.27 - 2022-07-28

• Improve support for Qlik measures and lineage and drop extraction of qvds

0.0.26 - 2022-07-22

• Add Qlik support to extract measures assets

0.0.25 - 2022-07-04

• Add Qlik support to extract qvds and lineage assets

0.0.24 - 2022-06-30

• Allow to use all_looks endpoint to retrieve looker Looks for param or env variable.

0.0.23 - 2022-06-29

• Allow to change Looker api timeout through param or env variable.

0.0.22 - 2022-06-20

• Introduce new extractor for visualization tool Qlik with support for
  • spaces
  • users
  • apps

0.0.21 - 2022-06-09

• Fix typo in Snowflake schema extract query

0.0.20 - 2022-06-08

• Fetch only distinct schemas in Snowflake warehouse

0.0.19 - 2022-05-30

• Use versions with range to ease dependency resolution for python 3.7 to 3.10

0.0.18 - 2022-05-19

• Enhance the file checker to search for prefixed files

0.0.17 - 2022-05-18

• Add retry for mode analytics

0.0.16 - 2022-05-18

• Add options to the pager:
  • start_page: to start pagination at another index (default to 1)
  • stop_strategy: to use different strategy to stop pagination (default to EMPTY_PAGE)

0.0.15 - 2022-05-09

• Skip snowflake columns with no name

0.0.14 - 2022-05-09

• Add missing metabase dependencies on Psycopg2

0.0.13 - 2022-05-06

• Remove top-level imports to isolate modules with different extra dependencies

0.0.12 - 2022-05-06

• Improved the file checker to detect repeated quotes in CSV.

0.0.11 - 2022-05-02

• Fix import error in file_checker script

0.0.10 - 2022-04-27

• Snowflake: discard 11 more query_type values when fetching queries

0.0.9 - 2022-04-13

• allow Looker parameters CASTOR_LOOKER_TIMEOUT_SECOND and CASTOR_LOOKER_PAGE_SIZE to be passed through environment variables
• fix import paths in castor_extractor/commands/upload.py script
• use storage.Client.from_service_account_info when credentials is a dictionary in uploader/upload.py

0.0.8 - 2022-04-07

• Fix links to documentation in the README

0.0.7 - 2022-04-05

• Fix dateutil import issue

0.0.6 - 2022-04-05

First version of Castor Extractor, including:

• Warehouse assets extraction

  • BigQuery
  • Postgres
  • Redshift
  • Snowflake

• Visualization assets extraction

  • Looker
  • Metabase
  • Mode Analytics
  • Tableau

• Utilities

  • Uploader to cloud-storage
  • File Checker (for generic metadata)