cyberneticlibrary

Extract Looker dashboard definitions

looker_ingestskillsetup L2948
Kaelio/ktx
What it does

Parse and extract Looker dashboard definitions

Best for

Extracting Looker dashboard structure and lineage for documentation or migration without manually re-creating in code

Inputs
  • · Looker instance URL
  • · Dashboard name or ID
  • · Auth credentials
Outputs
  • · Dashboard structure (tiles, dimensions, measures)
  • · Underlying LookML
  • · Data dependencies
Requires
  • · Looker API
  • · LookML parser
Preconditions

Looker instance reachable; credentials have dashboard read access; dashboard exists

Failure modes
  • · Auth fails
  • · Dashboard not found
  • · LookML syntax unsupported
Trust signals
  • · Reads from live Looker instance (not cached)
  • · Includes LookML source
  • · Data lineage tracked