Usage

from magento import MagentoAPI

magento = MagentoAPI("magentohost.com", 80, "test_api_user", "test_api_key")

magento.help() # Prints out all resources discovered and available.
# cart: create, info, license, order, totals
# cart_coupon: add, remove
# ... (a bunch of other resources)
# sales_order: addComment, cancel, hold, info, list, unhold

magento.sales_order.help() # 'sales_order' is a resource.
# sales_order: Order API
#   - addComment: Add comment to order
#   - cancel: Cancel order
#   - hold: Hold order
#   - info: Retrieve order information
#   - list: Retrieve list of orders by filters
#   - unhold: Unhold order

# Let's list sales and add their subtotals!
orders = magento.sales_order.list()
subtotals = [order["subtotal"] for order in orders]
revenue = sum(subtotals)

# Additionally, you can get API metadata from these calls:
json_description_of_resources = magento.resources()
json_description_of_possible_global_exceptions = magento.global_faults()
json_description_of_possible_resource_exceptions = magento.resource_faults("sales_order")

The API discovers and makes all of Magento’s API methods available to you. The best way to learn how to use the API is to play around with it in a Python shell and refer back to the Magento API documentation for docs on the usage of specific methods.

Quick IPython Shell

The Magento API is massive and takes effort to grok. If you need to use it in some production capacity, you’ll want to jump into a shell frequently and muck around with inputs and stare at outputs.

magento-ipython-shell will drop you into an IPython shell that has a variable bound to a MagentoAPI object that is ready for use.

The shell requires IPython, which is the bee’s knees. Install it and get it working first. Alternately, spin up a Python shell and instantiate the objects you need. This is just a slightly nicer way to get started mucking around.

Here’s how to launch it:

> magento-ipython-shell localhost.com 8888 api_user api_key

-- magento-ipython-shell -----------------
Connecting to 'http://localhost.com:8888/magento/api/xmlrpc'
Using API user/key api_user/api_key
Connected! The 'magento' variable is bound to a usable MagentoAPI instance.
-- magento-ipython-shell -----------------

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 16 2012, 12:38:40)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.13.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.

In [1]:

Now you can mess around with the magento instance.

In [1] magento
Out[1]: <magento.MagentoAPI at 0x107d3c310>

In [2]: magento.help() # Lists all the resources available and their methods.
Resources:

cart: create, info, license, order, totals
cart_coupon: add, remove
... (many more)

In [3]: magento.cart.help() # Describes the methods available under a resource.
cart: Shopping Cart
  - create: Create shopping cart
  - info: Retrieve information about shopping cart
  - license: Get terms and conditions
  - order: Create an order from shopping cart
  - totals: Get total prices for shopping cart

In [4]: len(magento.sales_order.list()) # Play around with output.
Out[4]: 2

Installation

python-magento is on PyPi:

• pip install python-magento

• easy_install python-magento

… or grab this code and run setup.py install