Export from Hacker News to Kafka
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 Kafka. 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
Kafka
This plugin is in preview.
This destination plugin lets you sync data from a CloudQuery source to Kafka in various formats such as CSV, JSON. Each table will be pushed to a separate topic
Table of Contents
MacOS Setup
Step 1. Install CloudQuery
brew install cloudquery/tap/cloudquery
Step 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.kafka.connection"
destinations:
- "DESTINATION_NAME"
spec:
item_concurrency: 100
Step 3. Configure Kafka destination plugin
You can find more information about the configuration in the plugin documentation
kind: destination
spec:
name: "kafka"
path: "cloudquery/kafka"
registry: "cloudquery"
version: "v3.3.9"
write_mode: "append"
spec:
# required - list of brokers to connect to
brokers: ["<broker-host>:<broker-port>"]
# optional - if connecting via SASL/PLAIN, the username and password to use. If not set, no authentication will be used.
sasl_username: "${KAFKA_SASL_USERNAME}"
sasl_password: "${KAFKA_SASL_PASSWORD}"
format: "json" # options: parquet, json, csv
format_spec:
# CSV-specific parameters:
# delimiter: ","
# skip_header: false
# Optional parameters
# compression: "" # options: gzip
# client_id: cq-destination-kafka
# verbose: false
# batch_size: 1000
Step 4. Run Sync
cloudquery sync hackernews.yml kafka.yml