Sift 1.1.1.0

Python bindings for Sift Science's API

Bindings for Sift Science’s REST API.

Installation

Set up a virtual environment with virtualenv (otherwise you will need to make the pip calls as sudo):

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Get the latest released package from pip:

Python 2:

pip install sift

Python 3:

pip3 install sift

or install newest source directly from GitHub:

Python 2:

pip install git+https://github.com/SiftScience/sift-python

Python 3:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/SiftScience/sift-python

Usage

Here’s an example:

import sift.client

sift.api_key = '<your api key here>'
client = sift.Client()

user_id= "23056"    # User ID's may only contain a-z, A-Z, 0-9, =, ., -, _, +, @, :, &, ^, %, !, $

# Track a transaction event -- note this is blocking
event = "$transaction"

properties = {
  "$user_id" : user_id,
  "$user_email" : "[e-mail]",
  "$seller_user_id" : "2371",
"seller_user_email" : "[e-mail]",
  "$transaction_id" : "573050",
  "$payment_method" : {
    "$payment_type"    : "$credit_card",
    "$payment_gateway" : "$braintree",
    "$card_bin"        : "542486",
    "$card_last4"      : "4444"
},
"$currency_code" : "USD",
"$amount" : 15230000,
}

response = client.track(event, properties)


response.is_ok()  # returns True of False

print response # prints entire response body and http status code


# Request a score for the user with user_id 23056
response = client.score(user_id)

# Label the user with user_id 23056 as Bad with all optional fields
response = client.label(user_id,{ "$is_bad" : True, "$reasons" : ["$chargeback", ], "$description" : "Chargeback issued", "$source" : "Manual Review", "$analyst" : "analyst.name@your_domain.com"})

1.1.1.0 (2014-09-3)

• Added timeout parameter to track, score, and label functions.

1.1.0.0 (2014-08-25)

• Added Module-scoped API key.

• Minor documentation updates.

0.2.0 (2014-08-20)

• Added Label and Score functions.

• Added Python 3 compatibility.

0.1.1 (2014-02-21)

• Bump default API version to v203.

0.1.0 (2013-01-08)

• Just the Python REST client itself.