---
description: >-
  We highly recommend using Airflow or similar schedulers to run Metadata
  Connectors.
---

# Example Metadata Ingestion

This is an example of how to create an Airflow DAG to ingest the sample data provided in the git [repository](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/tree/main/ingestion/examples/sample\_data).

## Airflow Example for Sample Data

```python
import pathlib
import json
from datetime import timedelta
from airflow import DAG

try:
    from airflow.operators.python import PythonOperator
except ModuleNotFoundError:
    from airflow.operators.python_operator import PythonOperator

from metadata.config.common import load_config_file
from metadata.ingestion.api.workflow import Workflow
from airflow.utils.dates import days_ago

default_args = {
    "owner": "user_name",
    "email": ["username@org.com"],
    "email_on_failure": False,
    "retries": 3,
    "retry_delay": timedelta(minutes=5),
    "execution_timeout": timedelta(minutes=60)
}

config = """
{
  "source": {
    "type": "sample-data",
    "config": {
      "sample_data_folder": "./examples/sample_data"
    }
  },
  "sink": {
    "type": "metadata-rest",
    "config": {}
  },
  "metadata_server": {
    "type": "metadata-server",
    "config": {
      "api_endpoint": "http://localhost:8585/api",
      "auth_provider_type": "no-auth"
    }
  }
}
"""

def metadata_ingestion_workflow():
    workflow_config = json.loads(config)
    workflow = Workflow.create(workflow_config)
    workflow.execute()
    workflow.raise_from_status()
    workflow.print_status()
    workflow.stop()


with DAG(
    "sample_data",
    default_args=default_args,
    description="An example DAG which runs a OpenMetadata ingestion workflow",
    start_date=days_ago(1),
    is_paused_upon_creation=False,
    schedule_interval='*/5 * * * *', 
    catchup=False,
) as dag:
    ingest_task = PythonOperator(
        task_id="ingest_using_recipe",
        python_callable=metadata_ingestion_workflow,
    )
```

we are using a python method like below

```python
def metadata_ingestion_workflow():
    workflow_config = json.loads(config)
    workflow = Workflow.create(workflow_config)
    workflow.execute()
    workflow.raise_from_status()
    workflow.print_status()
    workflow.stop
```

Create a Workflow instance and pass a sample-data configuration that will read metadata from JSON files and ingest it into the OpenMetadata Server. You can customize this configuration or add different connectors please refer to our [examples](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/tree/main/ingestion/examples/workflows) and refer to [Connectors](../connectors/).