◆ cookbook/ recipes·● 11 recipes

Recipes.

End-to-end pipelines other teams have already wired up. Every recipe is real runnable code on GitHub — copy, swap the source, ship a grid in an afternoon.

★ featured8 min read · intermediate

Scrape with Firecrawl, stream to Instadash

A ~50-line pipeline that crawls a domain, structures every page with Firecrawl, and lands typed rows in an Instadash grid — versioned, queryable, mesh-indexed.

#firecrawl#pipeline#ingest#web

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┌─ pipeline ─┐

01firecrawlcrawl + extract

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02filtershape rows

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03http pushPOST /ingest

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04mesh indexpublic + cited

~50 lines·~28 rows · ~5 min end-to-end

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3 min read·beginner

Connect Claude (and Cursor, Windsurf) via MCP

Wire Claude Desktop, Claude.ai web, Cursor, or Windsurf to Instadash with the hosted MCP server. Seven tools, OAuth flow, no API key paste.

5 min read·intermediate

CrewAI + Instadash — typed crew output, persistent surface

A two-agent CrewAI workflow that produces validated, typed rows via output_pydantic and pushes them to Instadash in a single HTTP call.

crewaipythonpydantic

5 min read·beginner

Drag-and-drop CSV → FastAPI → grid

A 100-line FastAPI service that hosts a drop-zone upload form, parses CSVs, and pushes the rows to Instadash. Drop into any internal tool.

fastapipythonuvicorn

4 min read·beginner

DuckDB query → Instadash grid

Run a SQL query against a Parquet, CSV, or remote URL with DuckDB and pipe the result set straight to a versioned Instadash grid. ~3 lines of bash.

4 min read·beginner

Nightly grid refresh with GitHub Actions

A scheduled workflow that fetches data and pushes a fresh version to an Instadash grid every night. No server, no cron daemon — GitHub runs it.

github-actionsnode

6 min read·intermediate

LangChain RAG over the Instadash mesh

Plug instamesh_search as a LangChain tool. Your agent retrieves from a corpus of public, structured grids — no vector DB, no embedding pipeline.

langchainlanggraphpython

7 min read·intermediate

LangGraph + Instadash — durable agent, durable data

A LangGraph agent that publishes mid-graph output to an editable Instadash grid, interrupts for human review, and reads back the picks before continuing.

langgraphpythonsqlite

6 min read·advanced

Puppeteer headless scrape → grid

When Firecrawl is not enough — full-browser scraping with login + JS rendering, then push the rows to an Instadash grid.

puppeteernodetypescript

5 min read·intermediate

PydanticAI + Instadash — type-safe agent, live grid

A PydanticAI agent constrained to a typed result model, with a select-cell action column so the dashboard becomes a CRM-lite the moment the rows land.

pydantic-aipythonanthropic

7 min read·intermediate

Stripe webhooks → live revenue grid

A Cloudflare Worker that verifies Stripe webhook signatures, normalises events, and lands each one into an Instadash grid your finance team can look at.

cloudflare-workerstypescriptstripe

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