(prounounced "pfft")
PyFT is a python API wrapper around the Financial Times Content API, v2. Access to the Financial Times API requires a key, which can be obtained at developer.ft.com.
This wrapper is written to be compatible with Python 3+. To install necessary dependencies, use pip and the provided requirements.txt file.
pip install -r requirements.txt
PyFT will look in two places for your api key. First, ~/.ft.key will be read and the contents of that file will be used for your API key. Secondly, PyFT will try to use an environment variable called FT_API_KEY. If the environment variable is present, it will override the contents of the file.
To get the data for a single piece of content on FT.com:
from pyft import FT
ft = FT()
# the id can be pulled from the slug url of an FT.com story
content = ft.get_content("6f2ca3d6-86f5-11e4-982e-00144feabdc0")
print(content)
To get all of the content that has been updated since a certain date (continuing from previous example):
updated_content = ft.get_content_notifications(updated_since="2015-01-01")
##Running Tests
You can run the tests in the home directory with the python unittest framework:
python -m unittest tests.py