The Guardian API to Amazon DynamoDB Integration
AI-first ETL from The Guardian API into Amazon DynamoDB. Governed entities, incremental sync, typed landing tables.
How Datrise loads The Guardian API into Amazon DynamoDB
Datrise syncs The Guardian API's articles, sections, tags, contributors, publication dates, and headlines into Amazon DynamoDB as an item per source record in a table per entity. Flexible or custom fields land in nested map/list attributes, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as ISO-8601 string or epoch number attributes.
Sync is incremental: Datrise uses PutItem/UpdateItem keyed on a partition key derived from the entity id, so re-runs update only what changed. Partition-key design on the entity id to spread throughput evenly. DynamoDB rewards access-pattern-first key design, so Datrise sets partition/sort keys from your entity ids rather than scan-heavy defaults.
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Endpoints
The Guardian API: Guardian article archive and section metadata.
Amazon DynamoDB: Serverless key-value and document store on AWS.
How The Guardian API entities map to Amazon DynamoDB
| The Guardian API entity | Amazon DynamoDB object | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| articles | the_guardian_api_articles | id PK · custom fields → nested map/list attributes |
| sections | the_guardian_api_sections | id PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles |
| tags | the_guardian_api_tags | id PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles |
| contributors | the_guardian_api_contributors | id PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles |
FAQ
How does Datrise handle The Guardian API's custom fields in Amazon DynamoDB?
Flexible values are stored as nested map/list attributes, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native Amazon DynamoDB types.
How does the The Guardian API to Amazon DynamoDB sync stay up to date?
It runs incrementally — Datrise uses PutItem/UpdateItem keyed on a partition key derived from the entity id.
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