Airbyte Data Source Configuration: Dynamic "Replication Start Date"

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Hi all,

Is there a way to configure Airbyte data source’s “Replication Start Date” dynamically? E.g. replicate data for the past three days from current day.

I tried to use an external procedure and reset “Replication Start Date” manually, every day, through the AirBytes API, but wasn’t able to find the corresponding API request.

We are using the shopify connector.

Is the above functionality supported at all?

I am aware of incremental-replication and how it updates data, but in our use case we need to use full-replication

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Hey @dvamvakidis,

Could you give me an example of what you’re trying to do here? Also why would incremental-replication not be a suitable solution here?

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Hi @sajarin ,

First of all thanks for the reply.

We are trying to load sales data from shopify into a Postgres DB. The sales data of interest correspond, e.g. to the last 3 days from current date, so if its Dec 12th we want to load sales data between 12th and 10th of Dec.

Up until now, the only way we have been able to do the above is to manually change the date in the “Replication Start Date” field of the connector’s settings, before a sync takes place. However this is not practical and we attempted to create a scheduled task to sync data, using the airbytes API. We have been able to trigger a sync through the Airbytes API, but not to change the “Replication Start Date” value.

Is there any way this could be done through the API?

Incremental Replication is not an option, since we want to retrieve all data from the past 3 days, regardless of whether that data has changed or not since the last sync.

Thanks in advance.

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Hey @dvamvakidis,

Thanks for the response. Have you considered using the “Update Source” endpoint for our API and programmatically passing in new replication start dates? https://airbyte-public-api-docs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/rapidoc-api-docs.html#post-/v1/sources/update

I’m not sure if this would solve your issue but perhaps it’s worth investigating.

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Hi @sajarin,

Thank you for the suggestion. Using the API endpoint suggested, i managed to solve the problem!

Just for future reference to anyone interested, it is important to use the documentation of your source’s schema, in order to set the connectionConfiguration field. (e.g. for me the documentation could be found at ‘http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#’).

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Hey @dvamvakidis,

Thanks for reporting back with your suggestion for making this work for other users. Happy to hear you were able to use our API for your use case. Feel free to post more questions here in the forums!