PyUnio, API Consumption in a Snap

PyUnio is currently in alpha and should not be considered stable.

Introducion

PyUnio is an implementation of Tolga Tezel's Node.js project unio.

It allows developers to consume REST API's in as little as three lines of code by predefining aspects of an API in a JSON file. These API definitions are called Specifications and should be placed in a directory titled specs.

Any specs should be downloaded from here or you can write your own.

Warning

PyUnio's development may not always run parallel to that of unio.

PyUnio may implement features not available in unio, or it may not implement features available in unio.

For this reason, you should read this entire page for any important changes in future versions.

Install

Either

$ git clone git://github.com/citruspi/PyUnio.git
$ cd PyUnio && python setup.py
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

or

$ pip install pyunio

Directory Structure

project/
	script.py
	specs/
		service1.json
		service2.json
		service3.json			
		etc

Usage

from pyunio import pyunio

params = {
	'oauth': {
		'consumer_secret'	 : 'ITS A SECRET',
		'consumer_key'   	 : 'ITS A SECRET',
		'access_token'       : 'ITS A SECRET',
		'access_token_secret': 'ITS A SECRET'								
	},
	'header': {
		'api_key': 'ITS A SECRET'
	},
	'body': {
		'username': 'iluv',
		'password': 'pie'
	}
}

Example: Twitter - Get User Settings

The following code is an implementation of Twitter's API with PyUnio:

from pyunio import pyunio
	
params = {
	'oauth':  {
		'consumer_secret'    : 'ITS A SECRET',
		'consumer_key'       : 'ITS A SECRET',
		'access_token'       : 'ITS A SECRET',
		'access_token_secret': 'ITS A SECRET'
	},
	'header': {},
	'body'  : {}
}
	
pyunio.use('twitter')
	
result = pyunio.get('account/settings', params)
print result.text

The output of result.text (with my Twitter account) is:

{
	"protected":false,
	"geo_enabled":false,
	"screen_name":"citrus",
	"language":"en",
	"time_zone":{
		"tzinfo_name":"America\/Halifax",
		"name":"Atlantic Time (Canada)",
		"utc_offset":-14400
	},
	"discoverable_by_email":false,
	"sleep_time":{
		"enabled":false,
		"start_time":null,
		"end_time":null
	},
	"use_cookie_personalization":false,
	"always_use_https":true
}

This can then be loaded and parsed via Python's JSON module:

parsed = json.loads(result.text)

API

Coming Soon.

License

Copyright © 2013 Mihir Singh <me@mihirsingh.com>

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Contributing

Just fork and submit a pull request ;)