diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/extractors/dpath_extractor.py b/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/extractors/dpath_extractor.py
index 164161de63e6..01387c7ad690 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/extractors/dpath_extractor.py
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/extractors/dpath_extractor.py
@@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ def extract_records(self, response: requests.Response) -> List[Record]:
             extracted = response_body
         else:
             pointer = [pointer.eval(self.config) for pointer in self.field_pointer]
-            extracted = dpath.util.get(response_body, pointer, default=[])
+            if "*" in pointer:
+                extracted = dpath.util.values(response_body, pointer)
+            else:
+                extracted = dpath.util.get(response_body, pointer, default=[])
         if isinstance(extracted, list):
             return extracted
         elif extracted:
diff --git a/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/declarative/extractors/test_dpath_extractor.py b/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/declarative/extractors/test_dpath_extractor.py
index 5b15fb5fbb6a..4e9c575ad957 100644
--- a/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/declarative/extractors/test_dpath_extractor.py
+++ b/airbyte-cdk/python/unit_tests/sources/declarative/extractors/test_dpath_extractor.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
         ("test_field_in_config", ["{{ config['field'] }}"], {"record_array": [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]}, [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]),
         ("test_field_in_options", ["{{ options['options_field'] }}"], {"record_array": [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]}, [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]),
         ("test_field_does_not_exist", ["record"], {"id": 1}, []),
+        ("test_nested_list", ["list", "*", "item"], {"list": [{"item": {"id": "1"}}]}, [{"id": "1"}]),
+        ("test_complex_nested_list", ['data', '*', 'list', 'data2', '*'], {"data": [{"list": {"data2": [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]}},{"list": {"data2": [{"id": 3}, {"id": 4}]}}]}, [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}, {"id": 3}, {"id": 4}])
     ],
 )
 def test_dpath_extractor(test_name, field_pointer, body, expected_records):
diff --git a/docs/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/record-selector.md b/docs/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/record-selector.md
index dd729ca78ff9..bf48dcf9b60e 100644
--- a/docs/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/record-selector.md
+++ b/docs/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/record-selector.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Schema:
 ```
 
 The current record extraction implementation uses [dpath](https://pypi.org/project/dpath/) to select records from the json-decoded HTTP response.
+For nested structures `*` can be used to iterate over array elements.
 Schema:
 
 ```yaml
@@ -152,6 +153,50 @@ The selected records will be
 ]
 ```
 
+### Selecting fields nested in arrays
+
+Given a response body of the form
+
+```json
+
+{
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "record": {
+        "id": "1"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "record": {
+        "id": "2"
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+
+```
+
+and a selector
+
+```yaml
+selector:
+  extractor:
+    field_pointer: [ "data", "*", "record" ]
+```
+
+The selected records will be
+
+```json
+[
+  {
+    "id": 1
+  },
+  {
+    "id": 2
+  }
+]
+```
+
 ## Filtering records
 
 Records can be filtered by adding a record_filter to the selector.