Clever Python bindings

Maintenance

Clever is moving to a community supported model with our client libraries. We will still respond to and merge incoming PRs but are looking to turn over ownership of these libraries to the community. If you are interested, please contact our partner-engineering team at tech-support@clever.com.

Installation

From PyPi:

    $ pip install clever

or

    $ easy_install clever

Or from source:

    $ python setup.py install

Usage

Get started by importing the clever module and setting your authentication method:

    import clever
    clever.set_token('YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN')

The clever module exposes classes corresponding to resources:

• Contact
• District
• DistrictAdmin
• School
• SchoolAdmin
• Section
• Student
• Teacher
• Event

Each exposes a class method all that returns a list of all data in that resource that you have access to. Keyword arguments correspond to the same query parameters supported in the HTTP API, except that limit and page are not supported (pagination is handled automatically).

    schools = clever.School.all() # gets information about all schools you have access to
    schools = clever.School.all(where=json.dumps({'name': 'Of Hard Knocks'}))
    schools = clever.School.all(sort='state')

If you'd like more control over pagination, or to limit the number of resources returned, use the iter class method:

    students = clever.Student.iter()
    for i in range(0,2000):
        print students.next()

You may also use the starting_after or ending_before parameters with the iter method:

    students = clever.Student.iter(starting_after="530e5960049e75a9262cff1d")
    for s in students:
        print students.next()

The retrieve class method takes in a Clever ID and returns a specific resource. The object (or list of objects in the case of all) supports accessing properties using either dot notation or dictionary notation:

    demo_school = clever.School.retrieve("4fee004cca2e43cf27000001")
    assert demo_school.name == 'Clever Academy'
    assert demo_school['name'] == 'Clever Academy'

CLI

The library comes with a basic command-line interface:

    $ export CLEVER_API_TOKEN=DEMO_TOKEN
    $ clever districts all
    Running the equivalent of:
    --
    curl https://api.clever.com/v1.1/districts -H "Authorization: Bearer DEMO_TOKEN"
    --
    Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.clever.com
    API request to https://api.clever.com/v1.1/districts returned (response code, response body)     of (200, '{"data":[{"data":{"name":"Demo District","id":"4fd43cc56d11340000000005"},"uri":"/v1.1/districts/4fd43cc56d11340000000005"}],"links":[{"rel":"self","uri":"/v1.1/districts"}]}')
    Result (HTTP status code 200):
    --
    {"data":[{"data":{"name":"Demo District","id":"4fd43cc56d11340000000005"},"uri":"/v1.1/districts/4fd43cc56d11340000000005"}],"links":[{"rel":"self","uri":"/v1.1/districts"}]}
    --

Run clever -h to see a full list of commands.

Feedback

Questions, feature requests, or feedback of any kind is always welcome! We're available at tech-support@clever.com.

Development

Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Testing

python -m unittest discover test

Publishing

Update VERSION and CHANGELOG.md and run publish.sh to publish a new version of the library.

In order to publish to PyPI you will need a .pypirc file in your $HOME directory with the following contents:

[distutils]
index-servers =
    pypi

[pypi]
username: ****
password: ****

The username and password are in 1Password for Teams under PyPI.