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incremental-fetch

shipshitdev/library

Build resilient data ingestion pipelines from APIs. Use when creating scripts that fetch paginated data from external APIs (Twitter, exchanges, any REST API) and need to track progress, avoid duplicates, handle rate limits, and support both incremental updates and historical backfills. Triggers: 'ingest data from API', 'pull tweets', 'fetch historical data', 'sync from X', 'build a data pipeline', 'fetch without re-downloading', 'resume the download', 'backfill older data'. NOT for: simple one-shot API calls, websocket/streaming connections, file downloads, or APIs without pagination.

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Installation

$npx skills add https://github.com/shipshitdev/library --skill incremental-fetch

SKILL.md

Build data pipelines that never lose progress and never re-fetch existing data.

Track TWO cursors to support both forward and backward fetching:

| newestid | Fetch new data since last run | sinceid | | oldestid | Backfill older data | untilid |

Build resilient data ingestion pipelines from APIs. Use when creating scripts that fetch paginated data from external APIs (Twitter, exchanges, any REST API) and need to track progress, avoid duplicates, handle rate limits, and support both incremental updates and historical backfills. Triggers: 'ingest data from API', 'pull tweets', 'fetch historical data', 'sync from X', 'build a data pipeline', 'fetch without re-downloading', 'resume the download', 'backfill older data'. NOT for: simple one-shot API calls, websocket/streaming connections, file downloads, or APIs without pagination. Source: shipshitdev/library.

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npx skills add https://github.com/shipshitdev/library --skill incremental-fetch
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2026-02-01
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2026-02-18

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What is incremental-fetch?

Build resilient data ingestion pipelines from APIs. Use when creating scripts that fetch paginated data from external APIs (Twitter, exchanges, any REST API) and need to track progress, avoid duplicates, handle rate limits, and support both incremental updates and historical backfills. Triggers: 'ingest data from API', 'pull tweets', 'fetch historical data', 'sync from X', 'build a data pipeline', 'fetch without re-downloading', 'resume the download', 'backfill older data'. NOT for: simple one-shot API calls, websocket/streaming connections, file downloads, or APIs without pagination. Source: shipshitdev/library.

How do I install incremental-fetch?

Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/shipshitdev/library --skill incremental-fetch Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor

Where is the source repository?

https://github.com/shipshitdev/library