MercadoLibre's Python SDK

This is the official Python SDK for MercadoLibre's Platform.

How do I install it?

   $ pip install meli_client

How do I use it?

The first thing to do is to instance a Meli class. You'll need to give a clientId, a clientSecret and a site_id depending on the country for which you wish to develop. You can obtain both after creating your own application. For more information on this please read: creating an application

You must use one of the following site_id's or it'll default to MLA

• MLA for Argentina
• MLB for Brazil
• MCO for Colombia
• MCR for Costa Rica
• MEC for Ecuador
• MLC for Chile
• MLM for Mexico
• MLU for Uruguay
• MLV for Venezuela
• MPA for Panama
• MPE for Peru
• MPT for Portugal
• MRD for the Dominican Republic

Including the Lib

Include the lib meli in your project

Create an instance of Meli class

Simple like this

meli = Meli(client_id=1234, client_secret="a secret",site_id="MLA")

With this instance you can start working on MercadoLibre's APIs.

There are some design considerations worth to mention.

1. This SDK is just a thin layer on top of an http client to handle all the OAuth WebServer flow for you.

2. There is JSON parsing. this SDK will include json for internal usage.

3. If you already have the access_token and the refresh_token you can pass in the constructor

meli = Meli(client_id=1234, client_secret"a secret", access_token="Access_Token", refresh_token="Refresh_Token")

How do I redirect users to authorize my application?

This is a 2 step process.

First get the link to redirect the user. This is very easy! Just:

redirectUrl = meli.auth_url(redirect_URI="http://somecallbackurl")

This will give you the url to redirect the user. You need to specify a callback url which will be the one that the user will redirected after a successfull authrization process.

Once the user is redirected to your callback url, you'll receive in the query string, a parameter named code. You'll need this for the second part of the process.

meli.authorize(code="the received code", redirect_URI="http://somecallbackurl")

This will get an access_token and a refresh_token (is case your application has the offline_access) for your application and your user.

At this stage your are ready to make call to the API on behalf of the user.

Making GET calls

params = {'access_token' : meli.access_token}
response = meli.get(path="/users/me", params=params)

Making POST calls

params = {'access_token' : meli.access_token}

  #this body will be converted into json for you
body = {'foo'  : 'bar', 'bar' : 'foo'}

response = meli.post(path="/items", body=body, params=params)

Making PUT calls

params = {'access_token' : meli.access_token}

  #this body will be converted into json for you
body = {'foo'  : 'bar', 'bar' : 'foo'}

response = meli.put(path="/items/123", body=body, params=params)

Making DELETE calls

params = {'access_token' : meli.access_token}
response = meli.delete(path="/questions/123", params=params)

Examples

Don't forget to check out our examples codes in the folder examples

Community

You can contact us if you have questions using the standard communication channels described in the developer's site

I want to contribute!

That is great! Just fork the project in github. Create a topic branch, write some code, and add some tests for your new code.

Thanks for helping!