onfido-python 1.3.1

The official wrapper for the Onfido API

Onfido Python Client Library

onfido-python on PyPI

Version 1.3.1

The official wrapper for Onfido's API. Refer to the full API documentation for details of expected requests and responses for all resources.

This project supersedes the automatically generated api-python-client library (onfido in PyPI).

Installation

pip install onfido-python

:warning: Having the old onfido package installed at the same time will cause errors.

Getting started

Make API calls by using an instance of the Api class and providing your API token:

import onfido

api = onfido.Api("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

Regions

Set the region in the API instance using the base_url parameter.

The library will use the default base URL (api.onfido.com) for the EU region, if no region is specified.

To specify the US region do:

from onfido.regions import Region

api = onfido.Api("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>", base_url=Region.US)

To specify the CA region do:

from onfido.regions import Region

api = onfido.Api("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>", base_url=Region.CA)

See https://documentation.onfido.com/#regions for supported regions.

Timeouts

You can optionally set a global timeout for all requests in the API constructor. This takes a floating number input and each whole integer increment corresponds to a second.

For example, to set a timeout of 1 second:

api = onfido.Api("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>", timeout=1)

The default value for timeout is None, meaning no timeout will be set on the client side.

Response format

The Python library will return JSON requests directly from the API. Each request corresponds to a resource.

All resources share the same interface when making API calls. For example, use .create to create a resource, .find to find one, and .all to fetch all resources.

For example, to create an applicant:

applicant_details = {
  "first_name": "Jane",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "dob": "1984-01-01",
  "address": {
    "street": "Second Street",
    "town": "London",
    "postcode": "S2 2DF",
    "country": "GBR"
  }
}

api.applicant.create(applicant_details)

{
  "id": "<APPLICANT_ID>",
  "created_at": "2019-10-09T16:52:42Z",
  "sandbox": true,
  "first_name": "Jane",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "email": null,
  "dob": "1990-01-01",
  "delete_at": null,
  "href": "/v3/applicants/<APPLICANT_ID>",
  "id_numbers": [],
  "address": {
    "flat_number": null,
    "building_number": null,
    "building_name": null,
    "street": "Second Street",
    "sub_street": null,
    "town": "London",
    "state": null,
    "postcode": "S2 2DF",
    "country": "GBR",
    "line1": null,
    "line2": null,
    "line3": null
  }
}

See https://documentation.onfido.com/#request,-response-format for more information.

Resources

Resource information and code examples can be found at https://documentation.onfido.com/.

Error Handling

• OnfidoServerError is raised whenever Onfido returns a 5xx response
• OnfidoRequestError is raised whenever Onfido returns a 4xx response
• OnfidoInvalidSignatureError is raised whenever a signature from the header is not equal to the expected signature you compute for it
• OnfidoTimeoutError is raised if a timeout occurs
• OnfidoConnectionError is raised whenever any other network error occurs
• OnfidoUnknownError is raised whenever something unexpected happens

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/onfido/onfido-python/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Run the tests (poetry run pytest tests/test_my_new_feature.py)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request