Python client library
Python client library for Core API.
Requirements: Python 2.7, 3.3+
Installation
Install from PyPI, using pip:
$ pip install coreapi
Quickstart
Create a client instance:
from coreapi import Client
client = Client()
Retrieve an API schema:
document = client.get('https://api.example.org/')
Interact with the API:
data = client.action(document, ['flights', 'search'], params={
'from': 'LHR',
'to': 'PA',
'date': '2016-10-12'
})
Supported formats
The following schema and hypermedia formats are currently supported, either through built-in support, or as a third-party codec:
| Name | Media type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CoreJSON | application/coreapi+json |
Supports both Schemas & Hypermedia. |
| OpenAPI ("Swagger") | application/openapi+json |
Schema support. |
| JSON Hyper-Schema | application/schema+json |
Schema support. |
| HAL | application/hal+json |
Hypermedia support. |
Additionally, the following plain data content types are supported:
| Name | Media type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| JSON | application/json |
Returns Python primitive types. |
| Plain text | text/* |
Returns a Python string instance. |
| Other media | */* |
Returns a temporary download file. |
License
Copyright © 2015-2016, Tom Christie. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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