pycap 0.3.2

PyCap: Python interface to REDCap

PyCap is a python module exposing the REDCap API through some helpful abstractions. Information about the REDCap project can be found at http://project-redcap.org/.

Available under the BSD (3-clause) license.

Features

Currently, these API calls are available:

• Export Records

• Export Metadata

• Import Records

Requirements

• requests (> 0.6.4)

  $ easy_install requests

Usage

>>> import redcap
# Init the project with the api url and your specific api key
>>> project = redcap.Project(api_url, api_key)
>>> all_data = project.export_records()

# filter your data
>>> q = redcap.Query('age', {'ge':12})
>>> subset = project.filter(q)

# import data
>>> data = [{'subjid': i, 'age':a} for i, a in zip(range(1,6), range(7, 13))]
>>> num_processed = project.import_records(data)

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/VUIIS/PyCap.git PyCap
$ cd PyCap
$ python setup.py install

OR

$ easy_install PyCap

TODO

• More Tests

• File export and import

HISTORY

0.3.2 (2011-11-21)

• Works with current version of requests

• Under-the-hood changes (only json is used for RCRequest)

• Bug fix in Project.filter

0.3.1 (2011-11-02)

• Bug fix in import_records

0.3 (2011-09-27)

• Using Kenneth Reitz’s request module, greatly simplifying request code.

0.21 (2011-09-14)

• First public release on PyPI

• Version bump

0.1 (2011-09-14)

• Basic import, export, metadata