/basecrm-python

BaseCRM API Client for Python

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basecrm-python

BaseCRM Official API V2 library client for Python

Installation

BaseCRM package can be installed either via pip or easy_install:

$ pip install --upgrade basecrm

or

$ easy_install --upgrade basecrm

You can install from the source code as well. First clone the repo and then execute:

$ python setup.py install

After installing, import basecrm package:

import basecrm

Usage

import basecrm

# Then we instantiate a client (as shown below)

Build a client

Using this api without authentication gives an error

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')

Client Options

The following options are available while instantiating a client:

  • access_token: Personal access token
  • base_url: Base url for the api
  • user_agent: Default user-agent for all requests
  • timeout: Request timeout
  • verbose: Verbose/debug mode

Architecture

The library follows few architectural principles you should understand before digging deeper. 1. Interactions with resources are done via service objects. 2. Service objects are exposed as properties on client instances. 3. Service objects expose resource-oriented actions. 4. Actions return dictionaries that support attribute-style access, a la JavaScript (thanks to Bunch and it's form Munch).

For example, to interact with deals API you will use basecrm.DealsService, which you can get if you call:

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.deals # basecrm.DealsService

To retrieve list of resources and use filtering you will call #list method:

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.deals.list(organization_id=google.id, hot=True) # list(dict|Munch)

To find a resource by it's unique identifier use #retrieve method:

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.deals.retrieve(id=google.id)

When you'd like to create a resource, or update it's attributes you want to use either #create or #update methods. For example if you want to create a new deal you will call:

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
deal = client.deals.create(name='Website redesign', contact_id=coffeeshop.id)

deal.value = 1000
deal.currency = 'USD'

client.deals.update(deal.id, deal)

To destroy a resource use #destroy method:

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.deals.destroy(coffeshopdeal.id)

There other non-CRUD operations supported as well. Please contact corresponding service files for in-depth documentation.

Full example

Create a new organization and after that change it's attributes (website).

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
lead = client.leads.create(organization_name='Design service company')

lead.website = 'http://www.designservices.com'
client.leads.update(lead.id, lead)

Error handling

When you instantiate a client or make any request via service objects, exceptions can be raised for multiple of reasons e.g. a network error, an authentication error, an invalid param error etc.

Sample below shows how to properly handle exceptions:

try:
    # Instantiate a client.
    client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
    lead = client.leads.create(organization_name='Design service company')
    print lead
except basecrm.ConfigurationError as e:
    #  Invalid client configuration option
    pass
except basecrm.ResourceError as e:
    # Resource related error
    print 'Http status = ' + e.http_status
    print 'Request ID = ' + e.logref
    for error in e.errors:
        print 'field = ' + error.field
        print 'code = ' + error.code
        print 'message = ' + error.message
        print 'details = ' + error.details
except basecrm.RequestError as e:
    # Invalid query parameters, authentication error etc.
    pass
except Exception as e:
    # Other kind of exceptioni, probably connectivity related
    pass

Sync API

The following sample code shows how to perform a full synchronization flow using high-level wrapper.

First of all you need an instance of basecrm.Client. High-level basecrm.Sync wrapper uses basecrm.SyncService to interact with the Sync API. In addition to the client instance, you must provide a device’s UUID within device_uuid parameter. The device’s UUID must not change between synchronization sessions, otherwise the sync service will not recognize the device and will send all the data again.

client = basecrmClient(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
sync = basecrm.Sync(client=client, device_uuid='<YOUR_DEVICES_UUID')

Now all you have to do is to call fetch method and pass a lambda or function that you might use to store fetched data to a database.

def synchronize(meta, data):
  result =  DAO.execute(table=meta.type,
                        statement=meta.sync.event_type,
                        properties=data)
  return basecrm.Sync.ACK if result else basecrm.sync.NACK

sync.fetch(synchronize)

Notice that you must return either basecrm.Sync.ACK or basecrm.Sync.NACK.

Resources and actions

Documentation for every action can be found in basecrm/services.py file.

Account

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.accounts # => basecrm.AccountsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve account details - client.accounts.self

AssociatedContact

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.associated_contacts # => basecrm.AssociatedContactsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve deal's associated contacts - client.associated_contacts.list
  • Create an associated contact - client.associated_contacts.create
  • Remove an associated contact - client.associated_contacts.destroy

Contact

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.contacts # => basecrm.ContactsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all contacts - client.contacts.list
  • Create a contact - client.contacts.create
  • Retrieve a single contact - client.contacts.retrieve
  • Update a contact - client.contacts.update
  • Delete a contact - client.contacts.destroy

Deal

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.deals # => basecrm.DealsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all deals - client.deals.list
  • Create a deal - client.deals.create
  • Retrieve a single deal - client.deals.retrieve
  • Update a deal - client.deals.update
  • Delete a deal - client.deals.destroy

Lead

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.leads # => basecrm.LeadsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all leads - client.leads.list
  • Create a lead - client.leads.create
  • Retrieve a single lead - client.leads.retrieve
  • Update a lead - client.leads.update
  • Delete a lead - client.leads.destroy

LossReason

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.loss_reasons # => basecrm.LossReasonsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all reasons - client.loss_reasons.list
  • Create a loss reason - client.loss_reasons.create
  • Retrieve a single reason - client.loss_reasons.retrieve
  • Update a loss reason - client.loss_reasons.update
  • Delete a reason - client.loss_reasons.destroy

Note

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.notes # => basecrm.NotesService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all notes - client.notes.list
  • Create a note - client.notes.create
  • Retrieve a single note - client.notes.retrieve
  • Update a note - client.notes.update
  • Delete a note - client.notes.destroy

Pipeline

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.pipelines # => basecrm.PipelinesService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all pipelines - client.pipelines.list

Source

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.sources # => basecrm.SourcesService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all sources - client.sources.list
  • Create a source - client.sources.create
  • Retrieve a single source - client.sources.retrieve
  • Update a source - client.sources.update
  • Delete a source - client.sources.destroy

Stage

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.stages # => basecrm.StagesService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all stages - client.stages.list

Tag

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.tags # => basecrm.TagsService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all tags - client.tags.list
  • Create a tag - client.tags.create
  • Retrieve a single tag - client.tags.retrieve
  • Update a tag - client.tags.update
  • Delete a tag - client.tags.destroy

Task

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.tasks # => basecrm.TasksService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all tasks - client.tasks.list
  • Create a task - client.tasks.create
  • Retrieve a single task - client.tasks.retrieve
  • Update a task - client.tasks.update
  • Delete a task - client.tasks.destroy

User

client = basecrm.Client(access_token='<YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>')
client.users # => basecrm.UsersService

Actions:

  • Retrieve all users - client.users.list
  • Retrieve a single user - client.users.retrieve
  • Retrieve an authenticating user - client.users.self

Tests

To run all test suites:

$ python setup.py test

And to run a single suite:

$ python setup.py test -s basecrm.test.test_associated_contacts_service.AssociatedContactsServiceTests

Thanks

We would like to give huge thanks to YunoJuno. They reqlinquished the package name so we were able to publish official wrapper under basecrm name.

Thank You!

License

MIT

Bug Reports

Report here.

Contact

BaseCRM developers (developers@getbase.com)