things-sdk 0.3.0

Reusable Python SDK for Things Cloud sync — domain models, cloud client, sync engine, and task operations

Things SDK

Reusable Python SDK for Things Cloud sync.

Looking for the HTTP service instead of the Python library? See the root README.md for things-api.

Changelog — For a detailed history of changes, see CHANGELOG.md.

When should I use this?

Use things-sdk when you want to build Python-native tooling on top of Things Cloud, such as:

• CLI tools
• automation scripts
• background workers
• MCP servers
• custom internal integrations

If you want a ready-made HTTP/HTTPS service instead, use things-api from the repository root.

Installation

pip install things-sdk

Quick Start

import asyncio
from things_sdk import (
    ThingsClient,
    TaskService,
    DefaultSyncConfig,
    configure_sync,
    create_engine_and_session,
    init_db,
    pull_sync,
    push_sync,
)

async def main():
    # 1. Database setup
    engine, session_factory = create_engine_and_session(
        "sqlite+aiosqlite:///data/things.db"
    )
    await init_db(engine)

    # 2. Configure sync engine (use built-in defaults or pass your own config)
    configure_sync(DefaultSyncConfig())

    # 3. Sync from Things Cloud
    client = ThingsClient(email="[e-mail]", password="your-password")
    async with session_factory() as session:
        result = await pull_sync(client, session)
        print(f"Pulled: {result}")
    await client.close()

    # 4. Query tasks
    svc = TaskService()
    async with session_factory() as session:
        tasks = await svc.list_tasks(session)
        for t in tasks:
            print(f"  - {t['title']} ({t['status']})")

    await engine.dispose()


asyncio.run(main())

What's included

Module	Description
ThingsClient	Async HTTP client for Things Cloud
pull_sync / push_sync	Sync engine with retry + circuit breaker
TaskService	CRUD operations for tasks, areas, tags
create_engine_and_session	SQLAlchemy async engine factory
Domain models	Task, Area, Tag, ChecklistItem, SyncState
CloudClientProtocol	Protocol for custom client implementations
SyncConfig	Protocol for sync configuration
EntityHandler	Strategy pattern for extending sync to new entity types

Examples

See the examples/sdk/ directory for runnable examples:

Example	Description
list_tasks.py	Sync from Things Cloud, then print all pending tasks
sync_once.py	Run a single pull + push sync cycle
create_task.py	Create a task locally and push it to Things Cloud

All examples use the public things_sdk API:

THINGS_EMAIL=[e-mail] THINGS_PASSWORD=secret uv run examples/sdk/list_tasks.py

Smoke-tested release artifacts

Releases validate that the SDK is not just built, but actually installable and usable:

• build wheel + sdist
• install wheel into a clean virtualenv
• import things_sdk
• create a SQLAlchemy engine/session factory
• after publish, install things-sdk==<version> from PyPI and repeat the basic checks

That means a published things-sdk release has already passed both a build-time smoke test and a post-publish verification in CI.