What is fal?

fal is a command line tool that can read the state of your dbt project and help you run Python scripts with dbt by leveraging the meta config.

models:
  - name: historical_ozone_levels
    ...
    meta:
      fal:
        scripts:
          - send_slack_message.py
          - another_python_script.py # will be run after the first script

fal also provides useful helpers within the Python context to seamlessly interact with dbt models: ref("my_dbt_model_name") will pull a dbt model into your Python script as a pandas.DataFrame.