Re: [PLUG] Resources: Python REST client?

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 01:44:06PM -0400, brent timothy saner via plug wrote:
> On 4/12/22 13:37, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> > We have some open tickets at $WORK involving writing some Python code to
> > interact with various REST APIs, notably Jira/Insight and
> > Elasticsearch/Kibana.  Is anyone aware of a good "Building REST API
> > clients in Python" book or resource?  There are tons of books on doing
> > the server side--that is, writing the server and API part in Python. 
> > But I'm having trouble finding the opposite.
> > 
> > Clues?  Thanks.
> > JP
> 
> The requests module is usually pretty good for it.
> 
> https://www.nylas.com/blog/use-python-requests-module-rest-apis/ gives
> you a good overview, but surprisingly most third-party resources don't
> go into requests.Session[0] - which is perfect for API usage.
> 
> If you subclass[1] to use a base URI, you can use relative URLs for your
> API endpoints directly (and can more easily manage a variabled domain name).
> 
> 
> 
> [0]
> https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#session-objects
> 
> [1] https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2554#issuecomment-109341010
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42601812/python-requests-url-base-in-session

There's also an Elasticsearch module for Python: https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/v8.1.2/

Walt
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