Creating an Airflow Custom Hook for Reliable API Calls

Write your own Airflow custom Hook that makes API calls with retries, rate limits, and timeouts

Welcome to my 76th article on Medium. This is going to be a guide on crafting a custom Airflow hook to guarantee dependable API requests. In this blog, I will discuss how you can write your own custom Airflow Hook that is reliable and dynamic enough to handle failures🔥 and take care of rate limits ⚙️ and timeouts ⏲. Your data engineering workflows will gain resilience and effectiveness by incorporating these features.

ARV Creation, Creating an Airflow Custom Hook for Reliable API Calls

Table of contents

· What do I mean when I say reliable?
· The ReliableAPIHook, custom Hook for making API calls
· The ReliableAPIHook in action, Dag

There are various ways to make API calls from your Airflow Dag. I have already discussed quite a few in my previous blogs.

Airflow: 3 ways to call a REST API