Export from Hacker News to ClickHouse
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 ClickHouse. 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
ClickHouse
This destination plugin lets you sync data from a CloudQuery source to ClickHouse database
Table of Contents
MacOS Setup
Step 1. Install CloudQuery
brew install cloudquery/tap/cloudquery
Step 2. Log in to CloudQuery CLI
cloudquery login
Step 3. 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: "v3.5.6"
tables: ["*"]
backend_options:
table_name: "cq_state_hackernews"
connection: "@@plugins.v5.0.2.connection"
destinations:
- "DESTINATION_NAME"
# Learn more about the configuration options at https://cql.ink/hackernews_source
spec:
item_concurrency: 100
Step 4. Configure ClickHouse destination plugin
You can find more information about the configuration in the plugin documentation
kind: destination
spec:
name: "clickhouse"
path: "cloudquery/clickhouse"
registry: "cloudquery"
version: "v5.0.2"
write_mode: "append"
# Learn more about the configuration options at https://cql.ink/clickhouse_destination
spec:
connection_string: "clickhouse://${CH_USER}:${CH_PASSWORD}@localhost:9000/${CH_DATABASE}"
# Optional parameters
# cluster: ""
# ca_cert: ""
# engine:
# name: MergeTree
# parameters: []
#
# batch_size: 10000
# batch_size_bytes: 5242880 # 5 MiB
# batch_timeout: 20s
Step 5. Run Sync
cloudquery sync hackernews.yml clickhouse.yml