AWS Glue job consuming data from external REST API

Question

I'm trying to create a workflow where AWS Glue ETL job will pull the JSON data from external REST API instead of S3 or any other AWS-internal sources. Is that even possible? Anyone does it? Please help!

Answer 1

Yes, I do extract data from REST API's like Twitter, FullStory, Elasticsearch, etc. Usually, I do use the Python Shell jobs for the extraction because they are faster (relatively small cold start). When is finished it triggers a Spark type job that reads only the json items I need. I use the requests pyhton library.

In order to save the data into S3 you can do something like this

import boto3
import json

# Initializes S3 client
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

tweets = []
//Code that extracts tweets from API
tweets_json = json.dumps(tweets)
obj = s3.Object("my-tweets", "tweets.json")
obj.put(Body=data)