How to send lineage to OpenMetadata using API?

[ShilpaVernekar]

I am using the Python client. I want to know how Lineage works through API.

Originally answered in Slack support

[ShilpaVernekar]

You can get the details through the lineage API.
Please take a look at the schema to understand lineage.
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/catalog-rest-service/src/main/resources/json/schema/type/entityLineage.json

Here’s an example of API
https://sandbox.open-metadata.org/api/v1/lineage/table/name/sample_data.ecommerce_db.shopify.raw_customer?upstreamDepth=3&downstreamDepth=3

• "/api/v1/lineage" is the API endpoint.
• You can get lineage with an Entity. In the above example, we are looking at the table entity called sample_data.ecommerce_db.shopify.raw_customer as the FQN.
• You can also pass the Entity ID here.
• Lineage can be shown as further and backwards as you want using upstreamDepth and downstreamDepth.

You can find the API docs here - https://sandbox.open-metadata.org/docs#tag/lineage