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aioghost

Async Python client for the Ghost Admin API.

Installation

pip install aioghost

Quick Start

import asyncio
from aioghost import GhostAdminAPI

async def main():
    async with GhostAdminAPI(
        api_url="https://your-site.ghost.io",
        admin_api_key="your-admin-api-key"
    ) as api:
        # Get site info
        site = await api.get_site()
        print(f"Site: {site['title']}")

        # Get member counts
        members = await api.get_members_count()
        print(f"Total members: {members['total']}")
        print(f"Paid members: {members['paid']}")

        # Get MRR
        mrr = await api.get_mrr()
        print(f"MRR: ${mrr.get('usd', 0) / 100:.2f}")

asyncio.run(main())

Features

  • Fully async — Built on aiohttp for non-blocking I/O
  • Type hints — Full type annotations for IDE support
  • Context manager — Automatic session cleanup with async with
  • Parallel requests — Uses asyncio.gather() for efficient batching
  • Proper exceptions — Typed exceptions for different error cases

API Coverage

Endpoint Method
Site info get_site()
Posts count get_posts_count()
Latest post get_latest_post()
Members count get_members_count()
MRR get_mrr()
Newsletters get_newsletters()
Latest email get_latest_email()
Comments count get_comments_count()
Tiers get_tiers()
ActivityPub stats get_activitypub_stats()
Webhooks create_webhook(), delete_webhook()
Validate credentials validate_credentials()

Getting Your Admin API Key

  1. Log in to your Ghost Admin panel
  2. Go to Settings → Integrations
  3. Click Add custom integration
  4. Copy the Admin API Key (format: id:secret)

Exceptions

from aioghost import (
    GhostError,           # Base exception
    GhostAuthError,       # Invalid API key
    GhostConnectionError, # Network error
    GhostNotFoundError,   # 404 response
    GhostValidationError, # Invalid request
)

Passing Your Own Session

If you want to reuse an existing aiohttp.ClientSession:

import aiohttp
from aioghost import GhostAdminAPI

async def main():
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        api = GhostAdminAPI(
            api_url="https://your-site.ghost.io",
            admin_api_key="your-key",
            session=session,
        )
        site = await api.get_site()
        # Session is NOT closed when api goes out of scope

 

Copyright & license

Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license. Ghost and the Ghost Logo are trademarks of Ghost Foundation Ltd. Please see our trademark policy for info on acceptable usage.

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