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# Welcome to Luden!

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## What is Luden?

Luden is a fully-scriptable data ingestion engine for modern data teams. Set up a real-time data pipeline in minutes, not days.

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden></th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Getting Started</strong></td><td>Use Luden to connect, collect ...</td><td><a href="/pages/cIbOtJ8O8rW9xaUN5LNw">→</a> </td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Making Contributing</strong></td><td>Check out our CONTRIBUTING guide ...</td><td><a href="/pages/qSmJNToh6KKgcK41YuPH">→</a></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Main Features

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Send data from anywhere</strong></td><td>Installing Luden is a matter of selecting your framework and adding few lines of code to your app. Luden is built to be framework agnostic, so regardless of your stack, we have a solution that'll work for your team.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Connect destination</strong></td><td>Connect data warehouse (Snowflake, Clickhouse, BigQuery, S3, Redshift ot Postgres) and query your data instantly. Luden can either stream data in real-time or send it in micro-batches (up to once a minute).</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Transform the data</strong></td><td>Apply any transformation with Luden. Just write JavaScript code right in the UI to do anything with incoming data. And yes, the code editor supports code completion, debugging and many more. It feels like a full-featured IDE!</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Enrich the data</strong></td><td>Luden will automatically <a href="/pages/q8yRy1ridMKhKvB5zZqX">resolve user geo-location based on IP address</a>, and will parse user agent to filter out bots and understand the device type. Furthermore, Luden can pull data from 140+ external services to build a 100% accurate profile of your users</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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