So one of the taps I'm using - tap-mailchimp - has a stream that I'm not interested in... list_segments. I sortof dived into the code a bit and saw something about catalogs being a way to pull out just the info you need. The meltano documentation on all this is a bit thin and crunchy. Am I in the right direction? Would I do something like

meltano invoke tap-mailchimp  --discover > extract/tap-mailchimp.json

Then what? How do I pass the catalog in? What's the format of the catalog.

you can use https://docs.meltano.com/concepts/plugins#select-extra to pick what data you want. Meltano handles the catalog generation

LEGEND. We used that in the postgres tap but I didnt understand that it was a shared concept

@taylor I have an SDK variant of this tap, how would I go about getting it onto the hub? https://github.com/acarter24/tap-mailchimp It probably needs a little more documentation first but using it in production in my org.

You’ll need to get a PR up to the Hub. https://github.com/meltano/hub/pull/1403/files is a good example cc @pat_nadolny

@Andy Carter I can create a PR to get it added, I'll tag you