Hi, Does anyone knows how to run meltano in API mode (not CLI) ? My need is to take the output from a tap and manipulate it without a target. I know it is not the use case for meltano (CLI oriented) but we can imagine using it to create inputs / plugin to any dataworkflows and outputs for the same.

Hi @thomas_pedot. At this time Meltano's only public API is its CLI, although the extraction of the core of Meltano as a Python library has been discussed before. What sort of things in particular are you looking to do with Meltano that aren't easy to do with the CLI?

I really like the way meltano easy the integration of OpenAPI andall teh good tap and target already developped. I am also an instensive user of dagster. So mixing both would be... Today I am using the excelent plugin dagster-meltano which does "meltano run tap-1 target-1" running the CLI. But with this you don't capture errors, the configuration of dagster is not easy, etc... If we "capture" in memory what the tap-1 we can easily imagine to create ops / resources in dagster to integrate meltano. And leverage both. I will look into the mentioned talk.