ipython-restmagic

%%rest : HTTP REST magic for IPython.

Intended to provide similar functionality as restclient.el - HTTP REST client tool for Emacs.

Usage

In [1]: %load_ext restmagic
In [2]: %%rest
   ...: POST https://httpbin.org/post
   ...: Content-Type: application/json
   ...: Authorization: Bearer $mytoken
   ...:
   ...: {
   ...:     "some": "data",
   ...:     "array here": [
   ...:         "item 1",
   ...:         "item 2"
   ...:     ]
   ...: }
Out [2]: <Response [200]>

Examples

See notebooks:

• Usage example
• Django login form
• GitHub API
• Sending SMS with HiLink API
• Ethereum JSON RPC

Installation

Package can be installed from the PyPI by executing:

pip install restmagic

Development version can be installed by executing:

pip install git+https://github.com/b3b/ipython-restmagic

Package can be uninstalled by executing:

pip uninstall restmagic

Related resources

• restclient.el : HTTP REST client tool for Emacs
• Make Jupyter/IPython Notebook even more magical with cell magic extensions! : Nicolas Kruchten's talk from the PyCon Canada 2015
• ipython-sql : was used as an example of IPython magic
• python-requests : used for HTTP requests
• requests-toolbelt : used for HTTP sessions information dumping
• jsonpath-rw : used to extract parts of JSON responses
• lxml : used to extract parts of XML/HTML responses