Core API - Python Client

Python client library for Core API.

Allows you to interact with any API that exposes a supported schema or hypermedia format.

Installation

Install from PyPI, using pip:

$ pip install coreapi

Quickstart

Create a client instance:

from coreapi import Client
client = Client()

Retrieve an API schema:

document = client.get('https://api.example.org/')

Interact with the API:

data = client.action(document, ['flights', 'search'], params={
    'from': 'LHR',
    'to': 'PA',
    'date': '2016-10-12'
})

Supported formats

The following schema and hypermedia formats are currently supported, either through built-in support, or as a third-party codec:

Name	Media type	Notes
CoreJSON	`application/coreapi+json`	Supports both Schemas & Hypermedia.
OpenAPI ("Swagger")	`application/openapi+json`	Schema support.
JSON Hyper-Schema	`application/schema+json`	Schema support.
HAL	`application/hal+json`	Hypermedia support.

Additionally, the following plain data content types are supported:

Name	Media type	Notes
JSON	`application/json`	Returns Python primitive types.
Plain text	`text/*`	Returns a Python string instance.
Other media	`/`	Returns a temporary download file.

License

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