A Python wrapper for the Wordpress REST API
Project description
A Python wrapper for the Wordpress REST API v1-2 that also works on the WooCommerce REST API v1-3 and WooCommerce WP-API v1-2. Forked from the excellent Woocommerce API written by Claudio Sanches and modified to work with Wordpress: https://github.com/woocommerce/wc-api-python
I created this fork because I prefer the way that the wc-api-python client interfaces with the Wordpress API compared to the existing python client, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wordpress_json which does not support OAuth authentication, only Basic Authentication (very unsecure)
Any suggestions about how this repository could be improved are welcome :)
Roadmap
[x] Create initial fork
[x] Implement 3-legged OAuth on Wordpress client
[ ] Implement iterator for conveniant access to API items
Requirements
Wordpress version 4.7+ comes pre-installed with REST API v2, so you don’t need to have the WP REST API plugin if you have the latest Wordpress.
You should have the following plugins installed on your wordpress site:
WP REST API (only required for WP < v4.7, recommended version: 2.0+)
WP REST API - OAuth 1.0a Server (optional, if you want oauth. https://github.com/WP-API/OAuth1)
WP REST API - Meta Endpoints (optional)
WooCommerce (optional, if you want to use the WooCommerce API)
The following python packages are also used by the package
requests
beautifulsoup
Installation
Install with pip
pip install wordpress-api
Download this repo and use setuptools to install the package
pip install setuptools
git clone https://github.com/derwentx/wp-api-python
python setup.py install
Testing
If you have installed from source, then you can test with unittest:
pip install -r requirements-test.txt
python -m unittest -v tests
Getting started
Generate API credentials (Consumer Key & Consumer Secret) following these instructions: http://v2.wp-api.org/guide/authentication/
Simply go to Users -> Applications and create an Application, e.g. “REST API”. Enter a callback URL that you will be able to remember later such as “http://example.com/oauth1_callback” (not really important for this client). Store the resulting Key and Secret somewhere safe.
Check out the Wordpress API endpoints and data that can be manipulated in http://v2.wp-api.org/reference/.
Setup
Setup for the old Wordpress API:
from wordpress import API
wpapi = API(
url="http://example.com",
consumer_key="XXXXXXXXXXXX",
consumer_secret="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
api="wp-json",
version=None,
wp_user="XXXX",
wp_pass="XXXX"
)
Setup for the new WP REST API v2:
#...
wpapi = API(
url="http://example.com",
consumer_key="XXXXXXXXXXXX",
consumer_secret="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
api="wp-json",
version="wp/v2",
wp_user="XXXX",
wp_pass="XXXX"
)
Setup for the old WooCommerce API v3:
#...
wcapi = API(
url="http://example.com",
consumer_key="ck_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
consumer_secret="cs_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
api="wc-api",
version="v3"
)
Setup for the new WP REST API integration (WooCommerce 2.6 or later):
#...
wcapi = API(
url="http://example.com",
consumer_key="ck_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
consumer_secret="cs_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
api="wp-json",
version="wc/v1"
)
Options
Option |
Type |
Required |
Description |
---|---|---|---|
url |
string |
yes |
Your Store URL, example: http://wp.dev/ |
consumerKey |
string |
yes |
Your API consumer key |
consumerSecret |
string |
yes |
Your API consumer secret |
api |
string |
no |
Determines which api to use, defaults to wp-json, can be arbitrary: wc-api, oembed |
version |
string |
no |
API version, default is wp/v2, can be v3 or wc/v1 if using wc-api |
timeout |
integer |
no |
Connection timeout, default is 5 |
verify_ssl |
bool |
no |
Verify SSL when connect, use this option as False when need to test with self-signed certificates |
query_string_auth |
bool |
no |
Force Basic Authentication as query string when True and using under HTTPS, default is False |
Methods
Params |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
endpoint |
string |
API endpoint, example: posts or user/12 |
data |
dictionary |
Data that will be converted to JSON |
GET
.get(endpoint)
POST
.post(endpoint, data)
PUT
.put(endpoint, data)
DELETE
.delete(endpoint)
OPTIONS
.options(endpoint)
Response
All methods will return Response object.
Example of returned data:
>>> from wordpress import api as wpapi
>>> r = wpapi.get("posts")
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=UTF-8'
>>> r.encoding
'UTF-8'
>>> r.text
u'{"posts":[{"title":"Flying Ninja","id":70,...' // Json text
>>> r.json()
{u'posts': [{u'sold_individually': False,... // Dictionary data
Changelog
1.2.2 - 2017/06/16
support basic auth without https
rename oauth module to auth (since auth covers oauth and basic auth)
tested with latest versions of WP and WC
1.2.1 - 2016/12/13
tested to handle complex queries like filter[limit]
fix: Some edge cases where queries were out of order causing signature mismatch
hardened helper and api classes and added corresponding test cases
1.2.0 - 2016/09/28
Initial fork
Implemented 3-legged OAuth
Tested with pagination
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