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Sift Python Bindings

Bindings for Sift's APIs -- including the [Events](https://developers.sift.com/docs/python/events-api/, Labels, and Score APIs.

Installation

# install from PyPi
pip install Sift

Documentation

Please see here for the most up-to-date documentation.

Changelog

Please see the CHANGELOG for a history of all changes.

Usage

Here's an example:

import sift

client = sift.Client(api_key='<your API key here>', account_id='<your account ID here>')

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

# Track a transaction event -- note this is a blocking call
properties = {
    "$user_id": user_id,
    "$user_email": "buyer@gmail.com",
    "$seller_user_id": "2371",
    "seller_user_email": "seller@gmail.com",
    "$transaction_id": "573050",
    "$payment_method": {
        "$payment_type": "$credit_card",
        "$payment_gateway": "$braintree",
        "$card_bin": "542486",
        "$card_last4": "4444"
    },
    "$currency_code": "USD",
    "$amount": 15230000,
    # Identity / KYC signals
    "$kyc": {
        "$names_match": True,
        "$kyc_level": "$basic",   # "$basic" or "$full"
        "$bin_nationality_match": True,
        "$provider": "lexisnexis",
    },
    # Geo/compliance signals
    "$geo": {
        "$uuid": "gc-abc-123",
        "$provider": "geocomply",
    },
    # Bot detection signals
    "$bot_identification": {
        "$result": "$human",        # "$bot", "$human", or "$suspected"
        "$provider": "datadome",
    },
}

try:
    response = client.track(
        "$transaction",
        properties,
    )
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass
else:
    if response.is_ok():
        print("Successfully tracked event")


# Track a transaсtion event and receive a score with percentiles in response (sync flow).
# Note: `return_score` or `return_workflow_status` must be set `True`.
properties = {
    "$user_id": user_id,
    "$user_email": "buyer@gmail.com",
    "$seller_user_id": "2371",
    "seller_user_email": "seller@gmail.com",
    "$transaction_id": "573050",
    "$payment_method": {
        "$payment_type": "$credit_card",
        "$payment_gateway": "$braintree",
        "$card_bin": "542486",
        "$card_last4": "4444"
    },
    "$currency_code": "USD",
    "$amount": 15230000,
}

try:
    response = client.track(
        "$transaction",
        properties,
        return_score=True,
        include_score_percentiles=True,
        abuse_types=("promotion_abuse", "content_abuse", "payment_abuse"),
    )
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass
else:
    if response.is_ok():
        score_response = response.body["score_response"]
        print(score_response)


# In order to include `warnings` field to Events API response via calling
# `track()` method, set it by the `include_warnings` param:
try:
    response = client.track("$transaction", properties, include_warnings=True)
    # ...
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Request a score for the user with user_id 23056
try:
    response = client.score(user_id)
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass
else:
    print(response.body)


try:
    # Label the user with user_id 23056 as Bad with all optional fields
    response = client.label(user_id, {
        "$is_bad": True,
        "$abuse_type": "payment_abuse",
        "$description": "Chargeback issued",
        "$source": "Manual Review",
        "$analyst": "analyst.name@your_domain.com"
    })
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Remove a label from a user with user_id 23056
try:
    response = client.unlabel(user_id, abuse_type='content_abuse')
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Get the status of a workflow run
try:
    response = client.get_workflow_status('my_run_id')
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Get the latest decisions for a user
try:
    response = client.get_user_decisions('example_user')
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Get the latest decisions for an order
try:
    response = client.get_order_decisions('example_order')
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Get the latest decisions for a session
try:
    response = client.get_session_decisions('example_user', 'example_session')
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# Get the latest decisions for a piece of content
try:
    response = client.get_content_decisions('example_user', 'example_content')
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# The send call triggers the generation of a OTP code that is stored by Sift and email/sms the code to the user.
send_properties = {
	"$user_id": "billy_jones_301",
	"$send_to": "billy_jones_301@gmail.com",
	"$verification_type": "$email",
	"$brand_name": "MyTopBrand",
	"$language": "en",
	"$site_country": "IN",
	"$event": {
		"$session_id": "SOME_SESSION_ID",
		"$verified_event": "$login",
		"$verified_entity_id": "SOME_SESSION_ID",
		"$reason": "$automated_rule",
		"$ip": "192.168.1.1",
		"$browser": {
			"$user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36"
		}
	}
}

try:
    response = client.verification_send(send_properties)
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# The resend call generates a new OTP and sends it to the original recipient with the same settings.
resend_properties = {
	"$user_id": "billy_jones_301",
	"$verified_event": "$login",
	"$verified_entity_id": "SOME_SESSION_ID"
}
try:
    response = client.verification_resend(resend_properties)
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

# The check call is used for verifying the OTP provided by the end user to Sift.
check_properties = {
	"$user_id": "billy_jones_301",
    "$code": 123456,
	"$verified_event": "$login",
	"$verified_entity_id": "SOME_SESSION_ID"
}
try:
    response = client.verification_check(check_properties)
except sift.client.ApiException:
    # request failed
    pass

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