cubejs-client-python

A Pythonic client for Cube, the semantic layer for building data applications. This is a from-scratch Python port of @cubejs-client/core (tracking cube-js/cube#1744), not a mechanical transliteration: pandas DataFrame is the primary result type, and queries can be built with a fluent/operator DSL, while a faithful low-level core (ResultSet, pivoting, time-series generation) stays behaviorally verified against the JS SDK's own test fixtures.

Status: Phases 0-6 — sync (CubeClient) and async (AsyncCubeClient) clients, both sharing one core, with load()/meta()/sql()/dry_run()/subscribe()/ cube_sql()/cube_sql_stream(); ResultSet covers regularQuery, compareDateRangeQuery, and blendingQuery (table_pivot, chart_pivot, pivot, table_columns, series/series_names, decompose, drill_down, etc.), including custom (PostgreSQL-interval-style) time granularities; .to_pandas()/.df; the fluent/operator query builder (Query, dim()/measure()); a PivotConfig builder for to_pandas(pivot_config=...); Meta.members_grouped_by_cube(); and a compact/columnar opt-in via load(response_format=...). The client-side format module and WebSocket transport are out of scope. subscribe() degrades to HTTP polling (no push transport) and uses native cancellation rather than the JS mutexObj/mutexKey supersession API.

📖 Full API Reference — every class, method, and type, with verified example output and a list of differences from the JS SDK.

Install

pip install cubejs-client-python

The distribution is cubejs-client-python; the import is cubejs_client:

from cubejs_client import cube

For local development, see Development.

Usage

from cubejs_client import cube, Query, dim

client = cube(api_token="CUBE-API-TOKEN", api_url="http://localhost:4000/cubejs-api/v1")

# Plain dict query (same shape the JS SDK / REST API expects)
result_set = client.load({
    "measures": ["Orders.count"],
    "dimensions": ["Orders.status"],
})

# Or the fluent builder + operator-overloaded filter DSL
query = (
    Query()
    .measures("Orders.count")
    .dimensions("Orders.status")
    .filter(dim("Orders.status") != "cancelled")
    .order("Orders.count", "desc")
)
result_set = client.load(query)

df = result_set.to_pandas()          # pandas DataFrame, typed via table_columns()
rows = result_set.table_pivot()      # list[dict], byte-for-byte faithful to the JS SDK

Async client

AsyncCubeClient mirrors CubeClient method-for-method (load/meta/sql/dry_run, same params and query-builder support), backed by httpx.AsyncClient:

from cubejs_client import AsyncCubeClient

client = AsyncCubeClient(api_token="CUBE-API-TOKEN", api_url="http://localhost:4000/cubejs-api/v1")
result_set = await client.load({"measures": ["Orders.count"]})
df = result_set.to_pandas()

PivotConfig builder

from cubejs_client import PivotConfig

pivot_config = PivotConfig().x("Orders.createdAt.day").y("Orders.status", "measures")
df = result_set.to_pandas(pivot_config=pivot_config)

PivotConfig is a Pythonic convenience accepted by to_pandas(); ResultSet's own methods (pivot, chart_pivot, table_pivot, ...) stay faithful to the JS core and take plain dicts only — call .build() first if calling those directly.

Direct SQL (cube_sql / cube_sql_stream)

# One-shot: returns {"schema": [...], "data": [...], "lastRefreshTime"?: str}
result = client.cube_sql("SELECT status, measure(count) FROM orders GROUP BY 1")
for row in result["data"]:
    print(row)

# Streaming: typed chunks ({"type": "schema"|"data"|"error", ...})
for chunk in client.cube_sql_stream("SELECT * FROM orders"):
    if chunk["type"] == "data":
        print(chunk["data"])

# Async streaming
async for chunk in async_client.cube_sql_stream("SELECT * FROM orders"):
    ...

Live updates (subscribe)

def on_update(error, result_set):
    if error is None:
        print(result_set.table_pivot())

subscription = client.subscribe({"measures": ["Logs.count"]}, on_update)
# ... later ...
subscription.unsubscribe()

# Async: schedule an asyncio.Task, cancel with `await`
subscription = async_client.subscribe({"measures": ["Logs.count"]}, on_update)
await subscription.unsubscribe()

subscribe() re-polls every poll_interval seconds and calls callback(error, result_set) for each update; request errors are delivered to the callback without stopping the loop.

Requesting compact / columnar response formats

# The wire format is decoded transparently; opt in to the smaller payload with:
result_set = client.load({"measures": ["Orders.count"]}, response_format="compact")

Development

python3.12 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

pytest tests            # golden tests (ported from the JS SDK's own test suite) + unit tests
ruff check src tests
mypy src/cubejs_client

Golden tests

tests/golden/ contains fixtures and expected outputs transcribed verbatim from the JS SDK's test/helpers.ts and test/ResultSet.test.ts, so the Python ResultSet/time-series core can be checked against the same ground truth the JS client is tested against. When porting new JS behavior, port the matching JS test case's exact input/output first.