OBC, the Open Badges Client

obc is a python library that provides a standard API to interact with Open Badge platforms.

Quick start guide

Install OBC

obc is distributed as a python package. It can be installed using pip (or any other package manager) from PyPI:

$ pip install obc

Use providers in your application

Let say you want to issue an existing Open Badge Factory badge for a list of recipients, an example implementation would look like:

from obc.providers.obf import BadgeIssue, BadgeQuery, OBF

# Configure Open Badge Factory provider using your client identifier and secret
# key
obf = OBF(client_id="my_obf_client_id", client_secret="super_secret")

# Get the badge with the "badge_id" identifier
badge = await anext(obf.badges.read(query=BadgeQuery(id="badge_id")))

# We want to issue a badge for the following recipients
issue = BadgeIssue(
    recipient=[
      "jane@example.org",
      "tarzan@example.org"
    ]
)

issue = await obf.badges.issue(badge, issue)

More details will follow in the upcoming documentation.

Hack on the project

If you want to start contributing on the project, use the bootstrap Makefile target to build the Docker development image:

$ make bootstrap

To run tests, type:

$ make test

And to lint sources, there is also a command for that:

$ make lint

If you had new dependencies to the project, you will have to rebuild the Docker image (and the development environment):

$ make build && make dev

You can explore all other target using:

$ make help

Contributing

This project is intended to be community-driven, so please, do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any question related to our implementation or design decisions.

We try to raise our code quality standards and expect contributors to follow the recommandations from our handbook.

License

This work is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).