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airbyte: Seamless ELT Data Moves for Fast‑Scaling Startups

Move data from APIs, databases, or files to warehouses, lakes, or AI apps with a self‑hosted or cloud solution. Ideal for founders building data‑driven products. 22k+ GitHub stars.
22,200 stars+41★ this week5,398 forksPythonGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Oct 5Updated 10/10/2026100% free · open source
What it does

Airbyte integrates data from various sources like APIs, databases, and files into warehouses, lakes, and AI applications, enabling seamless ELT pipelines for startups.

When to use it
  • •When you need to synchronize data from multiple sources into a single warehouse for analysis.
  • •When your startup requires a reliable and scalable data integration pipeline.
  • •When you want to automate data movement from APIs, databases, and files to AI applications.
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docker run --rm -it airbyte/server sync --config config.json
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How airbyte: Seamless ELT Data Moves for Fast‑Scaling Startups works
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Airbyte: Seamless ELT Data Moves for Fast‑Scaling Startups is a very large Python project (~583k lines across 5267 code files, plus 792 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Other license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~583k lines · 5267 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
Developer setup
A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.
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Java/JVM
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Python 50%Kotlin 41%Java 6%MDX 1%JavaScript 1%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
What's in each folder
docs/Documentation1991 files
airbyte-integrations/Folder11744 files
docusaurus/Folder2605 files
airbyte-cdk/Folder2011 files
tools/Helper scripts30 files
poe-tasks/Folder13 files
docker-images/Folder12 files
airbyte-ci/Folder11 files
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Creator
airbytehq
Language
Python
Category
design
Published
7/27/2020

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