elAPI is a powerful, extensible API interface to eLabFTW built for the University Computing Centre (URZ, FIRE division) at Universität Heidelberg.
Project description
elAPI
elAPI is a powerful, extensible API interface to eLabFTW. It supports serving almost all kinds of requests documented in eLabFTW API documentation with ease. elAPI treats eLabFTW API endpoints as its arguments.
Example:
From the documentation:
GET /users/{id}
With elAPI you can do the following:
$ elapi get users --id <id>
Installation
elAPI can be installed from PyPI. Make sure pip
is not invoked from an active virtual environment.
$ python3 -m pip install --user elapi
Configuration
elAPI needs to be configured first before we can do anything useful with it. elAPI supports a YAML configuration file in the following locations.
- Current directory:
./elapi.yaml
- User directory:
$HOME/.config/elapi.yaml
- Root directory:
/etc/elapi.yaml
elAPI supports configuration overloading. I.e., a keyword set in root configuration file /etc/elapi.yaml
can be
overriden by setting a different value in user configuration file $HOME/.config/elapi.yaml
. In terms of precedence,
configuration file present in the currently active directory has the highest priority, and configuration in root
directory has the lowest.
The following parameters are currently configurable, with host
and api_token
being the required fields. For testing
purposes it would be safe to store everything in the user configuration file.
# elAPI configuration
# Saved in `$HOME/.config/elapi.yaml`
host: <host API url>
# Example: https://demo.elabftw.net/api/v2/
# Note the host URL ends with the API endpoint
api_token: <token with at least read-access>
# You can generate an API token from eLabFTW user panel -> API keys tab.
export_dir: ~/Downloads/elAPI
unsafe_api_token_warning: yes
We can get an overview of detected configurations.
$ elapi show-config
If both host
and api_token
are detected, we are good to go!
Usage
elAPI can be invoked from the command-line.
$ elapi --help
GET
requests
We can request an overview of running eLabFTW server.
$ elapi get info -F yaml
# Here -F (or --format) defines the output format
We can request a list o all active experiments and export it to a JSON
file.
$ elapi get experiments --export ~/Downoads/experiments.json
POST
requests
We can create a new user by the name 'John Doe'.
$ elapi post users -d '{"firstname": "John", "lastname": "Doe", "email": "test_test@itnerd.de"}'
Bill teams
We can generate invoice for eLabFTW teams.
$ elapi bill-teams generate-invoice
We may just want to have a look at the billing information without generating invoice.
$ elapi bill-teams info -F yaml
We can also export this information as a YAML
file to the export directory defined in configuration
file (export_dir
).
elapi bill-teams info -F yaml --export
Open-source
elAPI is open-source and published under AGPLv3 license. The repository is however hosted internally within Universität Heidelberg's network. The codebase can still be accessed from PyPI. If you express interest in having the repository made completely public, or if you have any question, feel free to contact us.
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