So since that's sort of an IO step I would recommend you define a custom dataset that only provides and implementation for load not a save operation https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/stable/07_extend_kedro/03_custom_datasets.html You may want to take inspiration from the APIDataSet which look a bit like this https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_modules/kedro/extras/datasets/api/api_dataset.html#APIDataSet