python-http-client 2.1.1

HTTP REST client, simplified for Python

Quickly and easily access any RESTful or RESTful-like API.

If you are looking for the SendGrid API client library, please see this repo.

Announcements

All updates to this project is documented in our CHANGELOG.

Installation

pip install python_http_client

or

easy_install python_http_client

Quick Start

Here is a quick example:

GET /your/api/{param}/call

import python_http_client
global_headers = {"Authorization": "Basic XXXXXXX"}
client = Client(host='base_url', request_headers=global_headers)
client.your.api._(param).call.get()
print response.status_code
print response.headers
print response.body

POST /your/api/{param}/call with headers, query parameters and a request body with versioning.

import python_http_client
global_headers = {"Authorization": "Basic XXXXXXX"}
client = Client(host='base_url', request_headers=global_headers)
query_params={"hello":0, "world":1}
request_headers={"X-Test": "test"}
data={"some": 1, "awesome", 2, "data", 3}
response = client.your.api._(param).call.post(request_body=data,
                                              query_params=query_params,
                                              request_headers=request_headers)
print response.status_code
print response.headers
print response.body

Usage

• Example Code

Roadmap

If you are intersted in the future direction of this project, please take a look at our milestones. We would love to hear your feedback.

How to Contribute

We encourage contribution to our projects, please see our CONTRIBUTING guide for details.

Quick links:

• Feature Request

• Bug Reports

• Sign the CLA to Create a Pull Request

• Improvements to the Codebase

Thanks

We were inspired by the work done on birdy and universalclient.

About

python-http-client is guided and supported by the SendGrid Developer Experience Team.

python-http-client is maintained and funded by SendGrid, Inc. The names and logos for python-http-client are trademarks of SendGrid, Inc.