How to Build an ETL App for EmailOctopus Data in Python with CData

The rich ecosystem of Python modules lets you get to work quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. With the CData API Driver for Python and the petl framework, you can build EmailOctopus-connected applications and pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading EmailOctopus data. This article shows how to connect to EmailOctopus with the CData Python Connector and use petl and pandas to extract, transform, and load EmailOctopus data.

With built-in, optimized data processing, the CData Python Connector offers unmatched performance for interacting with live EmailOctopus data in Python. When you issue complex SQL queries from EmailOctopus, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to EmailOctopus and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connecting to EmailOctopus Data

Connecting to EmailOctopus data looks just like connecting to any relational data source. Create a connection string using the required connection properties. For this article, you will pass the connection string as a parameter to the create_engine function.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the EmailOctopus Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\EmailOctopus.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for EmailOctopus (see below).

EmailOctopus API Profile Settings

Sign into your EmailOctopus account and navigate to Integrations & API > API > Your API Keys to generate or retrieve your API key.

After installing the CData EmailOctopus Connector, follow the procedure below to install the other required modules and start accessing EmailOctopus through Python objects.

Install Required Modules

Use the pip utility to install the required modules and frameworks:

pip install petl
pip install pandas

Build an ETL App for EmailOctopus Data in Python

Once the required modules and frameworks are installed, we are ready to build our ETL app. Code snippets follow, but the full source code is available at the end of the article.

First, be sure to import the modules (including the CData Connector) with the following:

import petl as etl
import pandas as pd
import cdata.api as mod

You can now connect with a connection string. Use the connect function for the CData EmailOctopus Connector to create a connection for working with EmailOctopus data.

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\EmailOctopus.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")

Create a SQL Statement to Query EmailOctopus

Use SQL to create a statement for querying EmailOctopus. In this article, we read data from the CampaignReportBounced entity.

sql = "SELECT CampaignId, ContactId FROM CampaignReportBounced WHERE ContactStatus = 'bounced'"

Extract, Transform, and Load the EmailOctopus Data

With the query results stored in a DataFrame, we can use petl to extract, transform, and load the EmailOctopus data. In this example, we extract EmailOctopus data, sort the data by the ContactId column, and load the data into a CSV file.

Loading EmailOctopus Data into a CSV File

table1 = etl.fromdb(cnxn,sql)

table2 = etl.sort(table1,'ContactId')

etl.tocsv(table2,'campaignreportbounced_data.csv')

With the CData API Driver for Python, you can work with EmailOctopus data just like you would with any database, including direct access to data in ETL packages like petl.

Free Trial & More Information

Download a free, 30-day trial of the CData API Driver for Python to start building Python apps and scripts with connectivity to EmailOctopus data. Reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions.

Full Source Code

import petl as etl
import pandas as pd
import cdata.api as mod

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\EmailOctopus.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")

sql = "SELECT CampaignId, ContactId FROM CampaignReportBounced WHERE ContactStatus = 'bounced'"

table1 = etl.fromdb(cnxn,sql)

table2 = etl.sort(table1,'ContactId')

etl.tocsv(table2,'campaignreportbounced_data.csv')