What is cartodb-python?

The cartodb-python project is a Python client for the CartoDB SQL API that supports authentication using OAuth.

Installation

You can install cartodb-python by cloning this repository or by using Pip, a Python package installer similar to easy_install.

pip install cartodb

or if you want to use the development version

pip install -e git+git://github.com/Vizzuality/cartodb-python.git#egg=cartodb

Note that cartodb-python depends on the ouath2 module

pip install oauth2

and if you're running python < 2.6 you need to install simplejson

pip install simplejson

Usage example

The following example requires your CartoDB API consmer key and consumer secret or the API KEY. Refer to the CartoDB Authentication documentation for details.

using oAuth

from cartodb import CartoDBOAuth, CartoDBException

user =  'me@mail.com'
password =  'secret'
CONSUMER_KEY='YOUR_CARTODB_CONSUMER_KEY'
CONSUMER_SECRET='YOUR_CARTODB_CONSUMER_SECRET'
cartodb_domain = 'YOUR_CARTODB_DOMAIN'
cl = CartoDBOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, user, password, cartodb_domain)
try:
    print cl.sql('select * from mytable')
except CartoDBException as e:
    print ("some error ocurred", e)

using API KEY

You can get you api key in https://YOUR_USER.cartodb.com/your_apps/api_key

from cartodb import CartoDBAPIKey, CartoDBException

user =  'me@mail.com'
API_KEY ='YOUR_CARTODB_API_KEY'
cartodb_domain = 'YOUR_CARTODB_DOMAIN'
cl = CartoDBAPIKey(API_KEY, cartodb_domain)
try:
    print cl.sql('select * from mytable')
except CartoDBException as e:
    print ("some error ocurred", e)

Note for people using version 0.4

With the new API key auth now you have two options to authenticate so the class CartoDB has been replaced with CartoDBOAuth and CartoDBAPIKey.

In order to migrate your code to this version you have to replace

from cartodb import CartoDB

by

from cartodb import CartoDBOAuth as CartoDB

running tests

clone the repo, create a secret.py from secret.py.example, fill the variables and execute:

python setup.py test