BasecamPY3

An easy-to-use Python interface to the Basecamp 3 API.

While BasecamPY3 aims to be equally functional in Python 2.7, the majority of testing has been in Python 3.4+ during this early stage of its development.

Features

• Easy, AWS CLI-like configuration and installation
• Object-oriented API
• Handles rate-limiting, caching, and authentication for you!

Install

pip install basecampy3
bc3 configure

Follow the prompts to obtain an access and refresh token which is then saved to ~/.config/basecamp.conf, allowing you to call Basecamp3() without any parameters. You will need to make your own Basecamp 3 app integration first.

Storing in environment variables

Once you have the credentials you can store them in environment variables:

• BASECAMP_CLIENT_ID
• BASECAMP_CLIENT_SECRET
• BASECAMP_REDIRECT_URL
• BASECAMP_ACCESS_TOKEN
• BASECAMP_REFRESH_TOKEN

This will allow to easier deploys using CI, initializing with:

from basecampy3 import Basecamp3

bc3 = Basecamp3.from_environment()

Usage

Basic Example

from basecampy3 import Basecamp3

bc3 = Basecamp3()

for project in bc3.projects.list():
    print(project.name)

new_project = bc3.projects.create("My New Project", description="The best project ever made.")
new_project.campfire.post_message("Hello World!")
new_message = new_project.message_board.post_message("Check this out", content="This is a new message thread start.")
new_message.archive()

todolist = new_project.todoset.create("Things to be done")
todolist.create("Get Milk")
todolist.create("Get Eggs")
go_to_bed = todolist.create("Go to bed.")
go_to_bed.check()  # this is marked as done

Not all functionality of the API is available yet. For anything missing, you can use the requests Session object yourself directly and consult the Basecamp 3 API docs. The benefit of using this Session object is you will benefit from the authentication, rate-limiting, and caching features.

Direct Session Example

from basecampy3 import Basecamp3
import json

bc3 = Basecamp3()
session = bc3.session

# replace these with actual IDs of the Basecamp objects you wish to get
MY_COMPANY_ID = 1234567
recording_id = 123456789
project_id = 1234567

# Reference:
# https://github.com/basecamp/bc3-api/blob/master/sections/comments.md#get-comments
BASE_URL = "https://3.basecampapi.com/{company_id}".format(company_id=MY_COMPANY_ID)  # base of all API requests
ENDPOINT = "{base_url}/buckets/{project_id}/recordings/{recording_id}/comments.json"  # get comments endpoint
url = ENDPOINT.format(base_url=BASE_URL, project_id=project_id, recording_id=recording_id)
resp = session.get(url)  # make a GET request. Substitute get() with post() or put() or delete() as needed
if not resp.ok:  # API returned a 4XX or 5XX error
    print("Something went wrong.")
data = resp.json()
pretty_print = json.dumps(data, indent=4)
print(pretty_print)

CLI Example

COMING SOON! Command Line interface for doing stuff with Basecamp. (not working yet)

  $ bc3 copy-access 12341234 87658765  # give user 87658765 access to all the projects that 12341234 does

Todo

• The rest of the Basecamp 3 API
• Command line tool (beyond just the "configure" command)
• Better testing coverage