carto-report

A Python module to export a database metrics as a html file for CARTO organization user.

Installation

You can install carto-report by cloning this repository or by using Pip:

$ pip install carto-report

If you want to use the development version, you can install directly from github:

$ pip install -e git+git://github.com/CartoDB/carto-report.git#egg=carto

If using, the development version, you might want to install dependencies as well:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Only tested in Python 3

Usage Example

Command Line application

The package installs a command line application carto_report that has the following usage instructions:

$ carto_report -h

usage: carto_report [-h] [--user-name CARTO_USER] [--api_key CARTO_API_KEY]
                    [--api_url CARTO_API_URL] [--organization CARTO_ORG]
                    [--output OUTPUT] [--quota QUOTA]
                    [--loglevel {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR}]

CARTO reporting tool

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --user-name CARTO_USER, -U CARTO_USER
                        Account user name (defaults to env variable
                        CARTO_USER)
  --api_key CARTO_API_KEY, -a CARTO_API_KEY
                        Api key of the account (defaults to env variable
                        CARTO_API_KEY)
  --api_url CARTO_API_URL, -u CARTO_API_URL
                        Set the base URL. For example:
                        https://username.carto.com/ (defaults to env variable
                        CARTO_API_URL)
  --organization CARTO_ORG, -o CARTO_ORG
                        Set the name of the organization account (defaults to
                        env variable CARTO_ORG)
  --output OUTPUT       File path for the report, defaults to report.html
  --quota QUOTA, -q QUOTA
                        LDS quota for the user, defaults to 5000
  --loglevel {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR}, -l {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR}
                        How verbose the output should be, default to the most
                        silent

As a python module

from carto_report.report import Reporter

reporter = Reporter(CARTO_USER, CARTO_API_URL, CARTO_ORG, API_KEY, USER_QUOTA)

with open('/tmp/report.html','w') as writer:
    writer.write(reporter.report())

Where the different parameters are:

• CARTO_USER: user name of the account to check
• CARTO_API_URL: this is usually https://{CARTO_USER}.carto.com/ but may differ if you are not using carto.com accounts
• CARTO_API_KEY: your CARTO ENGINE master API key
• USER_QUOTA: your LDS quota

Known Issues

• Improve report layout and style (with Airship).
• Add assertions.
• Use conditionals within the template.
• Add debug loggins to bet feedback, especially when getting all tables and analysis.
• Include logging as a proper library.