target-csv

A Singer target that writes data to CSV files.

How to use it

target-csv works together with any other Singer Tap to move data from sources like Braintree, Freshdesk and Hubspot to CSV-formatted files. It is commonly used for loading data into tools like Excel or simply storing a backup of the source data set.

Install and Run

First, make sure Python 3 is installed on your system or follow these installation instructions for Mac or Ubuntu.

target-csv can be run with any Singer Tap, but we'll use tap-fixerio - which pulls currency exchange rate data from a public data set - as an example.

These commands will install tap-fixerio and target-csv with pip, and then run them together, piping the output of tap-fixerio to target-csv:

› pip install target-csv tap-fixerio
› tap-fixerio | target-csv
  INFO Replicating the latest exchange rate data from fixer.io
  INFO Tap exiting normally

The data will be written to a file called exchange_rate.csv in your working directory.

› cat exchange_rate.csv
AUD,BGN,BRL,CAD,CHF,CNY,CZK,DKK,GBP,HKD,HRK,HUF,IDR,ILS,INR,JPY,KRW,MXN,MYR,NOK,NZD,PHP,PLN,RON,RUB,SEK,SGD,THB,TRY,ZAR,EUR,USD,date
1.3023,1.8435,3.0889,1.3109,1.0038,6.869,25.47,7.0076,0.79652,7.7614,7.0011,290.88,13317.0,3.6988,66.608,112.21,1129.4,19.694,4.4405,8.3292,1.3867,50.198,4.0632,4.2577,58.105,8.9724,1.4037,34.882,3.581,12.915,0.9426,1.0,2017-02-24T00:00:00Z

If you're using a different Tap, substitute tap-fixerio in the final command above to the command used to run your Tap.

Optional Configuration

target-csv takes an optional configuration file that can be used to set formatting parameters like the delimiter - see config.sample.json for examples. To run target-csv with the configuration file, use this command:

› tap-fixerio | target-csv -c my-config.json

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