Uplink

Builds Reusable Objects for Consuming Web APIs.
Works with Requests, aiohttp, and Twisted.
Inspired by Retrofit.

A Quick Walkthrough, with GitHub API v3

Uplink turns your HTTP API into a Python class.

from uplink import Consumer, get, Path, Query


class GitHub(Consumer):
    """A Python Client for the GitHub API."""

    @get("users/{user}/repos")
    def get_repos(self, user: Path, sort_by: Query("sort")):
        """Retrieves the user's public repositories."""

Build an instance to interact with the webservice.

github = GitHub(base_url="https://api.github.com/")

Then, executing an HTTP request is as simply as invoking a method.

repos = github.get_repos(user="octocat", sort_by="created")

The returned object is a friendly requests.Response:

print(repos.json())
# Output: [{'id': 64778136, 'name': 'linguist', ...

For sending non-blocking requests, Uplink comes with support for aiohttp and twisted.

Ready to launch your first API client with Uplink? Start with this quick tutorial!

Features

Quickly Define Structured API Clients
- Use decorators and type hints to describe each HTTP request
- JSON, URL-encoded, and multipart request body and file upload
- URL parameter replacement, request headers, and query parameter support
Bring Your Own HTTP Library
- Non-blocking I/O support for Aiohttp and Twisted
- Supply your own session (e.g., requests.Session) for greater control
Easy and Transparent Deserialization/Serialization
- Define custom converters for your own objects
- Support for marshmallow schemas, pydantic models, and handling collections (e.g., list of Users)
Extendable
- Install optional plugins for additional features (e.g., protobuf support)
- Compose custom response and error handling functions as middleware
Authentication
- Built-in support for Basic Authentication
- Use existing auth libraries for supported clients (e.g., requests-oauthlib)

Uplink officially supports Python 2.7 and 3.5+.

Note: Python 2.7 suport will be removed in v0.10.0.

Installation

To install the latest stable release, you can use pip (or pipenv):

$ pip install -U uplink

If you are interested in the cutting-edge, preview the upcoming release with:

$ pip install https://github.com/prkumar/uplink/archive/master.zip

Extra! Extra!

Further, uplink has optional integrations and features. You can view a full list of available extras here.

When installing Uplink with pip, you can select extras using the format:

$ pip install -U uplink[extra1, extra2, ..., extraN]

For instance, to install aiohttp and marshmallow support:

$ pip install -U uplink[aiohttp, marshmallow]

User Testimonials

Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy), host of Talk Python and Python Bytes podcasts-

Of course our first reaction when consuming HTTP resources in Python is to reach for Requests. But for structured APIs, we often want more than ad-hoc calls to Requests. We want a client-side API for our apps. Uplink is the quickest and simplest way to build just that client-side API. Highly recommended.

Or Carmi (@liiight), notifiers maintainer-

Uplink's intelligent usage of decorators and typing leverages the most pythonic features in an elegant and dynamic way. If you need to create an API abstraction layer, there is really no reason to look elsewhere.

Documentation

Check out the library's documentation at https://uplink.readthedocs.io/.

For new users, a good place to start is this quick tutorial.

Community

Use the Discussions tab on GitHub to join the conversation! Ask questions, provide feedback, and meet other users!

We're migrating our community from Gitter to GitHub Discussions. Feel free to search our Gitter lobby for past questions and answers. However, to help us transition, please start new threads/posts in GitHub Discussions instead of Gitter.

Contributing

Want to report a bug, request a feature, or contribute code to Uplink? Checkout the Contribution Guide for where to start. Thank you for taking the time to improve an open source project 💜

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