Matrix Client SDK for Python

This is a Matrix client-server SDK for Python 2.7 and 3.4+

Community discussion on usage of this SDK and development of this SDK can be found at #matrix-python-sdk:matrix.org.

Documentation can be found at http://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-python-sdk/

Project Status

This sdk is currently lightly maintained (without any sort of official or semi-official "lead" maintainer). In general pull-requests might be reviewed but little to no new-feature or bug-fix development is happening outside of that. For more info or to volunteer to help, please see matrix-org#279. Or come chat in #matrix-python-sdk:matrix.org.

Installation

Stable release

Install with pip from pypi. This will install all necessary dependencies as well.

pip install matrix_client

Development version

Install using setup.py in root project directory. This will also install all needed dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-python-sdk.git
cd matrix-python-sdk
python setup.py install

E2E development

The Olm bindings are not yet hosted on PyPI. Hence it it necessary to pass --process-dependency-links when installing with pip, in order to fetch them from their Git repository. For example replace python setup.py install in the above instructions by pip install --process-dependency-links .[e2e].

Usage

The SDK provides 2 layers of interaction. The low-level layer just wraps the raw HTTP API calls. The high-level layer wraps the low-level layer and provides an object model to perform actions on.

Client:

from matrix_client.client import MatrixClient

client = MatrixClient("http://localhost:8008")

# New user
token = client.register_with_password(username="foobar", password="monkey")

# Existing user
token = client.login(username="foobar", password="monkey")

room = client.create_room("my_room_alias")
room.send_text("Hello!")

API:

from matrix_client.api import MatrixHttpApi

matrix = MatrixHttpApi("https://matrix.org", token="some_token")
response = matrix.send_message("!roomid:matrix.org", "Hello!")

Structure

The SDK is split into two modules: api and client.

API

This contains the raw HTTP API calls and has minimal business logic. You can set the access token (token) to use for requests as well as set a custom transaction ID (txn_id) which will be incremented for each request.

Client

This encapsulates the API module and provides object models such as Room.

Samples

A collection of samples are included, written in Python 3.

You can either install the SDK, or run the sample like this:

PYTHONPATH=. python samples/samplename.py

Building the Documentation

The documentation can be built by installing sphinx and sphinx_rtd_theme.

Simple run make inside docs which will list the avaliable output formats.