A lightweight Python wrapper for StackExchange API v2.1. Build with Requests.
General philosophy of usage:
- se.fetch[_one](command, **parameters)
- parameters as in the documentation
- in the command, "{something}" and "{somethings}" are treated as placeholders for an int/str or a list of int/str, respectively
Example of usage:
import SEAPI
se = SEAPI.SEAPI()
some_users = se.fetch_one("users/{ids}", ids=[1,3,7,9,13], site="stackoverflow")
all_user = se.fetch("users", site="academia")
Alternatively, you can initialize SEAPI with default options, typically - site name, e.g.
so = SEAPI.SEAPI(site="stackoverflow")
some_questions = so.fetch("questions", page_limit=10)
# except for very small sites, you want to set page limit
some_sorted_posts = so.fetch_one("posts", order="desc", sort="votes")
# for sorting sometimes asking for more that one results in "throttle violation"
If you want to diagnose a problem, or avoid it:
so.last_call
# lookup at the last command sent
so.last_status
# check the last response status
slow_food = so.fetch("tags", min_delay=0.5)
# or set delay (by default it's 0.05)
