Introduction
The Civis API Python client is a Python package that helps analysts and developers interact with the Civis Platform. The package includes a set of tools around common workflows as well as a convenient interface to make requests directly to the Civis API. See the full documentation for more details.
Installation
Get a Civis API key (instructions).
Add a CIVIS_API_KEY environment variable.
You can add the following to .bash_profile for bash:
export CIVIS_API_KEY="alphaNumericApiK3y"
Source your .bash_profile
Install the package:
pip install civis
Optionally, install pandas, pubnub, and requests-toolbelt to enable some functionality in civis-python:
pip install pandas pip install pubnub pip install requests-toolbelt
Installation of pandas will allow some functions to return DataFrame outputs. Installation of pubnub will improve performance in all functions which wait for a Civis Platform job to complete. Installation of requests-toolbelt will allow streaming file uploads to Civis via civis.io.file_to_civis.
Usage
civis-python includes a number of wrappers around the Civis API for common workflows.
import civis
df = civis.io.read_civis(table="my_schema.my_table",
database="database",
use_pandas=True)The Civis API may also be directly accessed via the APIClient class.
import civis
client = civis.APIClient()
database = client.databases.list()See the full documentation for a more complete user guide.
Retries
The API client will automatically retry for certain API error responses.
If the error is one of [413, 429, 503] and the API client is told how long it needs to wait before it’s safe to retry (this is always the case with 429s, which are rate limit errors), then the client will wait the specified amount of time before retrying the request.
If the error is one of [429, 502, 503, 504] and the request is not a patch* or post* method, then the API client will retry the request several times, with a delay, to see if it will succeed.
Build Documentation Locally
To build the API documentation locally:
cd docs make html
Then open docs/build/html/index.html.
Note that this will use your API key in the CIVIS_API_KEY environment variable so it will generate documentation for all the endpoints that you have access to.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for information about contributing to this project.
License
BSD-3
See LICENSE.md for details.
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