Heimdall API SDK for Python

The official Python SDK for accessing the Heimdall Power External API.

Getting Started

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• Poetry

Install dependencies:

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
poetry install

Installing the SDK

The package is published to PyPI:

pip install heimdallpower-api-client

Alternatively, it can be downloaded and installed using the GitHub release artifacts:

pip install https://github.com/heimdallpower/api-sdk/releases/download/python-v1.2.3/heimdallpower_api_client-1.2.3-py3-none-any.whl

Replace the version and filename with the latest from Releases

Usage Example

from heimdall_api_client import HeimdallApiClient
import logging
import pprint

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

client = HeimdallApiClient(
    client_id="your_client_id",
    client_secret="your_client_secret",
)

assets = client.get_assets()
pprint.pprint(assets)

More examples can be seen in the examples folder.

Error Handling and Retry

The SDK handles transient infrastructure errors automatically so your application does not have to.

Automatic retry

All methods on HeimdallApiClient retry up to 3 times with exponential backoff (1 s → 2 s → 4 s) on the following transient conditions:

A WARNING log line is emitted for each retry attempt. If all 3 retry attempts are exhausted, a HeimdallApiError is raised with the status code of the last failed response.

Note: 500 Internal Server Error is not retried as it typically indicates a permanent application-level error.

Exceptions

All methods raise HeimdallApiError on non-transient errors. The status_code attribute holds the HTTP status code.

from heimdall_api_client import HeimdallApiClient, HeimdallApiError

client = HeimdallApiClient(client_id="...", client_secret="...")

try:
    dlr = client.get_latest_heimdall_dlr(line_id=line_id)
except HeimdallApiError as e:
    if e.status_code == 404:
        print("Line not found")
    else:
        print(f"API error {e.status_code}: {e}")

Timeouts

Pass a timeout (in seconds) to the constructor. It applies to every request, including each retry attempt.

import httpx
from heimdall_api_client import HeimdallApiClient

# Simple: abort any request that takes longer than 10 s
client = HeimdallApiClient(client_id="...", client_secret="...", timeout=10.0)

# Fine-grained: separate connect and read timeouts
client = HeimdallApiClient(
    client_id="...",
    client_secret="...",
    timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=5.0, read=30.0),
)

Note: Python synchronous code has no native cancellation equivalent to .NET's CancellationToken. Use timeout to bound how long each request may take. httpx.TimeoutException is raised if the timeout is exceeded.