tap-norwaycitybikeapi

tap-norwaycitybikeapi is a Singer tap for the Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen City Bike APIs.

Built with the Meltano Tap SDK for Singer Taps.

Note The City Bike APIs are published under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0.

Capabilities

• catalog
• state
• discover
• about
• stream-maps
• schema-flattening

Installation

Install from PyPi:

pipx install tap-norwaycitybikeapi

Install from GitHub:

pipx install git+https://github.com/andrejakobsen/tap-norwaycitybikeapi.git@main

Configuration

There are two important configurations that need to be set to use this extractor: client_identifier and city_name This can be done with the commands

meltano config tap-norwaycitybikeapi set client_identifier [value]

and

meltano config tap-norwaycitybikeapi set city_name [value]

Accepted Config Options

Setting	Required	Default	Description
client_identifier	True	None	The value should contain your company/organization name, follwed by a dash and the application's name.
city_name	True	oslo	Name of Norwegian city having City Bikes. Currently only available for Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen.
stream_maps	False	None	Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.
stream_map_config	False	None	User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.
flattening_enabled	False	None	'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.
flattening_max_depth	False	None	The max depth to flatten schemas.

A full list of supported settings and capabilities for this tap is available by running:

tap-norwaycitybikeapi --about

Configure using environment variables

This Singer tap will automatically import any environment variables within the working directory's .env if the --config=ENV is provided, such that config values will be considered if a matching environment variable is set either in the terminal context or in the .env file.

Usage

You can easily run tap-norwaycitybikeapi by itself or in a pipeline using Meltano.

Executing the Tap Directly

tap-norwaycitybikeapi --version
tap-norwaycitybikeapi --help
tap-norwaycitybikeapi --config CONFIG --discover > ./catalog.json

Developer Resources

Follow these instructions to contribute to this project.

Initialize your Development Environment

pipx install poetry
poetry install

Create and Run Tests

Create tests within the tests subfolder and then run:

poetry run pytest

You can also test the tap-norwaycitybikeapi CLI interface directly using poetry run:

poetry run tap-norwaycitybikeapi --help

Testing with Meltano

Note: This tap will work in any Singer environment and does not require Meltano. Examples here are for convenience and to streamline end-to-end orchestration scenarios.

Next, install Meltano (if you haven't already) and any needed plugins:

# Install meltano
pipx install meltano
# Initialize meltano within this directory
cd tap-norwaycitybikeapi
meltano install

Now you can test and orchestrate using Meltano:

# Test invocation:
meltano invoke tap-norwaycitybikeapi --version
# OR run a test `elt` pipeline:
meltano elt tap-norwaycitybikeapi target-jsonl

SDK Dev Guide

See the dev guide for more instructions on how to use the SDK to develop your own taps and targets.