OpenPlantbook

Open Plantbook is a free service to access plant data. Anyone can use information from the database for any purpose without limitations.

Requrements

In order to use this API you need to login to Open Plantbook web UI at https://open.plantbook.io and generate API credentials. The credentials are client_id and client_secret. API authentication implements OAuth2 standard Client Credentials Grant flow.

Usage

The library is written with async functions.

import asyncio

from pyopenplantbook import OpenPlantBookApi

client_id = "xxxx"
secret = "yyyy"

api = OpenPlantBookApi(client_id=client_id, secret=secret)

async def get_plant(species):
    plant = await api.get_plantbook_data(species=species)
    return plant

def main():
    loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
    asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
    result = loop.run_until_complete(get_plant("coleus 'marble'"))
    print(result)

main()