Export from Hacker News to Google Cloud Storage
CloudQuery is an open-source data integration platform that allows you to export data from any source to any destination.
The CloudQuery Hacker News plugin allows you to sync data from Hacker News to any destination, including Google Cloud Storage. It takes only minutes to get started.
Hacker News
The Hacker News Source plugin for CloudQuery extracts configuration from the Hacker News API and loads it into any supported CloudQuery destination
Google Cloud Storage
This destination plugin lets you sync data from a CloudQuery source to remote GCS (Google Cloud Storage) storage in various formats such as CSV, JSON and Parquet
Table of Contents
MacOS Setup
Step 1. Install CloudQuery
brew install cloudquery/tap/cloudqueryStep 2. Configure Hacker News source plugin
You can find more information about the configuration in the plugin documentation
kind: source
spec:
name: "hackernews"
path: "cloudquery/hackernews"
registry: "cloudquery"
version: "v3.1.5"
tables: ["*"]
backend_options:
table_name: "cq_state_hackernews"
connection: "@@plugins.gcs.connection"
destinations:
- "DESTINATION_NAME"
spec:
item_concurrency: 100Step 3. Configure Google Cloud Storage destination plugin
You can find more information about the configuration in the plugin documentation
kind: destination
spec:
name: "gcs"
path: "cloudquery/gcs"
registry: "cloudquery"
version: "v4.0.0"
write_mode: "append"
spec:
bucket: "bucket_name"
path: "path/to/files/{{TABLE}}/{{UUID}}.{{FORMAT}}"
format: "parquet" # options: parquet, json, csv
format_spec:
# CSV-specific parameters:
# delimiter: ","
# skip_header: false
# Optional parameters
# compression: "" # options: gzip
# no_rotate: false
# batch_size: 10000
# batch_size_bytes: 52428800 # 50 MiB
# batch_timeout: 30sStep 4. Run Sync
cloudquery sync hackernews.yml gcs.yml