Quickly and easily access any REST or REST-like API.

Here is a quick example:

GET /your/api/{param}/call

import python_http_client
global_headers = {"Authorization": "Basic XXXXXXX"}
client = Client(host='base_url', request_headers=global_headers)
client.your.api._(param).call.get()
print response.status_code
print response.response_headers
print response.response_body

POST /your/api/{param}/call with headers, query parameters and a request body with versioning.

import python_http_client
global_headers = {"Authorization": "Basic XXXXXXX"}
client = Client(host='base_url', request_headers=global_headers)
query_params={"hello":0, "world":1}
request_headers={"X-Test": "test"}
data={"some": 1, "awesome", 2, "data", 3}
response = client.your.api._(param).call.post(request_body=data,
                                              query_params=query_params,
                                              request_headers=request_headers)
print response.status_code
print response.response_headers
print response.response_body

Installation

pip install python_http_client

or

easy_install python_http_client

Usage

Following is an example using SendGrid. You can get your free account here.

First, update your .env with your SENDGRID_API_KEY and HOST. For this example HOST=https://api.sendgrid.com.

Then, update the path to the .env file.

Following is an abridged example, here is the full working code.

import os
import json
import python_http_client
path_to_env = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
python_http_client.Config(path_to_env)
host = os.environ.get('HOST')
api_key = os.environ.get('SENDGRID_API_KEY')
request_headers = {"Authorization": 'Bearer {0}'.format(api_key), "Content-Type": "application/json"}
version = 3 # note that we could also do client.version(3) to set the version for each endpoint
client = python_http_client.Client(host=host,
                                   request_headers=request_headers,
                                   version=version)

# GET collection
response = client.api_keys.get()

# POST
data = {
    "name": "My API Key",
    "scopes": [
        "mail.send",
        "alerts.create",
        "alerts.read"
    ]
}

response = client.api_keys.post(request_body=data)
json_response = json.loads(response.response_body)
api_key_id = json_response['api_key_id']

# GET single
response = client.api_keys._(api_key_id).get()

# PATCH
data = {
    "name": "A New Hope"
}
response = client.api_keys._(api_key_id).patch(request_body=data)

# PUT
data = {
    "name": "A New Hope",
    "scopes": [
        "user.profile.read",
        "user.profile.update"
    ]
}
response = client.api_keys._(api_key_id).put(request_body=data)

# DELETE
response = client.api_keys._(api_key_id).delete()

Announcements

[2016.02.25] - We hit version 1!

Roadmap

Milestones

How to Contribute

We encourage contribution to our libraries, please see our CONTRIBUTING guide for details.

• Feature Request
• Bug Reports
• Improvements to the Codebase

Thanks

We were inspired by the work done on birdy and universalclient.

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