pycap 2.2.0

PyCap: Python interface to REDCap

PyCap

Intro

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 MIT license.

Installation

Install the latest version with pip

$ pip install PyCap

If you want to load REDCap data into pandas dataframes, this will make sure you have pandas installed

$ pip install PyCap[all]

To install the bleeding edge version from the github repo, use the following

$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/redcap-tools/PyCap.git#egg=PyCap

Documentation

Canonical documentation and usage examples can be found here.

Features

Currently, these API calls are available:

Export

• Data Access Groups
• Field names
• Instrument-event mapping
• File
• Logging
• Metadata
• Project Info
• Records
• Repeating instruments and events
• Report
• Survey participant list
• Users
• User-DAG assignment
• User Roles
• User-Role assignment
• Version

Import

• Data Access Groups
• File
• Metadata
• Records
• Repeating instruments and events
• Users
• User-DAG assignment
• User Roles
• User-Role assignment

Delete

• Data Access Groups
• File
• Records
• Users
• User Roles

Other

• Generate next record name
• Switch data access group

Citing

If you use PyCap in your research, please consider citing the software:

Burns, S. S., Browne, A., Davis, G. N., Rimrodt, S. L., & Cutting, L. E. PyCap (Version 1.0) [Computer Software]. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University and Philadelphia, PA: Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Available from https://github.com/redcap-tools/PyCap. doi:10.5281/zenodo.9917