Hello. I have been using tap-facebook by MeltanoLabs, but I wanted to play around with it and modify it myself. So, I cloned the MeltanoLabs repo into one of my own on Github, and have been able to try out changes that I make. The problem is that I keep having to commit, push and then

meltano install extractor --clean tap-facebook

every time I make a change in order to see the changes in action (when I run the tap). I was wondering if there is a way to change this temporarily so that tap-facebook uses local tap code rather than what it finds at the

pip_url

in

meltano.yml

. Any support would be appreciated!

@ameya_agrawal the meltano.yml that comes with the SDK cookiecutter has a good example of using a local path as a pip_url see https://github.com/meltano/sdk/blob/d81c3f74a544f377cdc511f627ac1a31592b9500/cooki[…]cutter/tap-template/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.tap_id%7D%7D/meltano.yml

If your meltano project is outside the tap repo you can replace the dot with the path to the local tap repo path

Thank you. I am a little confused though (I am quite new to this stuff). Is the location of the meltano project the same directory as

meltano.yml

? So let’s say in my project folder

p1

, I have two folders:

f1

and

f2

.

f1

contains

meltano.yml

.

f2

contains my local version of

tap-facebook

, cloned from Github. I tried setting pip_url to

-e .

and also

-e ~/Desktop/p1/f2/tap-facebook

and also

-e ../f2/tap-facebook

, but none of these had any impact on the execution results. It still seems to be running the one from the last commit in Github.

I think youre understanding it correctly but yes you should run a re-install probably with

--clean

to be safe in order for it to get picked up

That did it! Using

-e ../f2/tap-facebook

worked for me. Thank you for your help.