Zeit Online API in Python

A simple Python Wrapper for the Zeit Online Content API, written in python by Marten Walk. Not official from Zeit Online !

For an overview of the API, view the original Docs or try them out in their explorer.

For all of this to work, you need an API-Key from their developer team, get one by writing a mail to api@zeit.de. Be nice and state your intention.

Setup

you can install the package with pip from PYPI, the python package Index.

pip install zeit-online

To import the package into your file just run this simple command

import zeit

To get started with interacting with the API, you need to initiate a API-Instance and set your API-Key you got from the developers

api = API()
api.set_token("API-KEY") #put your key in here

Examples

Now you have many different methods at your hands to interact with the API. Look at the full documentation to see everything.

A simple method is the get_status method to check the status of your connection

api.get_status() #returns "everything ok" if it works

I would say the most important Method is the search_for method. With it, you can search all endpoints in the API for a specified string.

api.search_for("John Kennedy") # search the default content endpoint for "John Kennedy", returns a search class

For more documentation, look at the docs and the example Notebook

©made by Marten Walk