Integrations
Business Intelligence
Looker

(alpha)

The Looker integration synchronizes your Dashboards and LookML from Looker into Grai In this way you can quickly identify which data is being used by your BI tools, which data is not, and more.

Web App

Looker Integration Homescreen

Fields

FieldValueExample
sourceThe name of the source, see sourcesmy-source
NameName for connectionLooker
NamespaceNamespace for the connection, see namespacedefault
base_urlBase url of your looker instance
client_idClient ID for the Looker API
client_secretClient Secret for the Looker API
namespacesAn Optional JSON string (see below)

You can find more information about generating a client id and secret here (opens in a new tab).

Namespaces

ℹ️

If the namespaces field is not provided, Grai will create a default namespace for each Explore on your behalf. You can always update the namespaces field later to customize your namespace organization.

In order to automatically tie your data lineage together, Grai needs to know which Grai namespace corresponds to each lookML model. The namespaces field should be a JSON string with the Grai namespace for each dashboard id e.g.

{
    "<model>": "<namespace>"
}

Python Library

Installation

Install the Looker Grai integration with pip

pip install grai_source_looker

More information about the API is available here.

Example

The library is split into a few distinct functions but if you only wish to extract nodes/edges you can do so as follows:

from grai_source_looker.base import LookerIntegration
 
integration = LookerIntegration(base_url=<your_url>,
                                client_id=<your_client_id>,
                                client_secret=<your_client_secret>,
                                namespace=<your_namespace>,
)
nodes, edges = integration.get_nodes_and_edges()
client.post([nodes, edges])
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