How to Build an ETL App for PolarTeamPro 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 PolarTeamPro-connected applications and pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading PolarTeamPro data. This article shows how to connect to PolarTeamPro with the CData Python Connector and use petl and pandas to extract, transform, and load PolarTeamPro data.

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

Connecting to PolarTeamPro Data

Connecting to PolarTeamPro 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 PolarTeamPro Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\PolarTeamPro.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for PolarTeamPro (see below).

PolarTeamPro API Profile Settings

Create an OAuth app at admin.polaraccesslink.com by clicking Create New Application. The system will issue your Client ID and Client Secret upon registration.

After installing the CData PolarTeamPro Connector, follow the procedure below to install the other required modules and start accessing PolarTeamPro 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 PolarTeamPro 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 PolarTeamPro Connector to create a connection for working with PolarTeamPro data.

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\PolarTeamPro.apip;Authscheme=OAuth;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url;")

Create a SQL Statement to Query PolarTeamPro

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

sql = "SELECT PlayerId, Created FROM PlayerTraningSessions WHERE Sport = 'Running'"

Extract, Transform, and Load the PolarTeamPro Data

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

Loading PolarTeamPro Data into a CSV File

table1 = etl.fromdb(cnxn,sql)

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

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

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

Free Trial & More Information

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Full Source Code

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

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\PolarTeamPro.apip;Authscheme=OAuth;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url;")

sql = "SELECT PlayerId, Created FROM PlayerTraningSessions WHERE Sport = 'Running'"

table1 = etl.fromdb(cnxn,sql)

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

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