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

If you are looking for the Twilio SendGrid API client library, please see this repo.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Quick Start
• Usage
• How to Contribute
• Local Setup of the Project
• Troubleshooting
• Announcements
• Thanks
• About
• License

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python version 2.7 or 3.4+

Install Package

pip install python_http_client

or

easy_install python_http_client

API Key

Store your Twilio SendGrid API key in a .env file.

cp .env_sample .env

Edit the .env file and add your API key.

Quick Start

Here is a quick example:

GET /your/api/{param}/call

import python_http_client

global_headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer XXXXXXX"}
client = Client(host='base_url', request_headers=global_headers)
client.your.api._(param).call.get()
print(response.status_code)
print(response.headers)
print(response.body)

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

import python_http_client

global_headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer 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.headers)
print(response.body)

Usage

• Example Code

How to Contribute

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

Quick links:

• Improvements to the Codebase
• Review Pull Requests

Local Setup of the Project

The simplest local development workflow is by using docker.

1. Install Docker
2. Run docker-compose build (this builds the container)
3. Run docker-compose up (this runs tests by default)

Troubleshooting

Please see our troubleshooting guide for any issues.

Announcements

All updates to this project is documented in our CHANGELOG.

Thanks

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

About

python-http-client is maintained and funded by Twilio SendGrid, Inc. The names and logos for python-http-client are trademarks of Twilio SendGrid, Inc.

License

The MIT License (MIT)