Airbyte API trigger connection sync

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Verified steps

  1. For Airbyte Cloud, obtain an API key from the developer settings; for OSS, use HTTP Basic Auth with the instance credentials.
  2. POST to https://api.airbyte.com/v1/jobs with body {"connectionId": "YOUR_CONNECTION_ID", "jobType": "sync"} and the appropriate Authorization header.
  3. Capture the jobId from the response.
  4. Poll GET https://api.airbyte.com/v1/jobs/{jobId} until status is succeeded or failed.
  5. On failure, retrieve logs from the job detail response or the Airbyte UI using the jobId for debugging.

Known gotchas

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