heartonbit / contentful.py

Python client for the Contentful Content Delivery API https://www.contentful.com/developers/documentation/content-delivery-api/

Contentful Delivery API SDK

Contentful is a content management platform for web applications, mobile apps and connected devices. It allows you to create, edit & manage content in the cloud and publish it anywhere via powerful API. Contentful offers tools for managing editorial teams and enabling cooperation between organizations.

This SDK is intended to replace the former unofficial Python CDA SDK. The old SDK can still be found at: https://github.com/contentful-labs/contentful.py

Installation

Install Contentful from the Python Package Index:

sudo pip install contentful

Usage

Create a client:

import contentful

client = contentful.Client('cfexampleapi', 'b4c0n73n7fu1')

If you plan on using the Preview API you need to specify the api_url:

client = contentful.Client('cfexampleapi', 'b4c0n73n7fu1', api_url='preview.contentful.com')

You can query for entries, assets, etc. very similar as described in the Delivery API Documentation. Please note, that all methods of the Python client library are snake_cased, instead of JavaScript's camelCase:

client.content_types()
client.entry('nyancat')

You can pass the usual filter options to the query:

client.entries({'content_type': 'cat'}) # query for a content-type by its ID (not name)
client.entries({'sys.id[ne]': 'nyancat'}) # query for all entries except 'nyancat'
client.entries({'include': 1}) # include one level of linked resources
client.entries({'content_type': 'cat', 'include': 1}) # you can also combine multiple parameters

The results are returned as contentful.resource.Resource <contentful.resource.Resource> objects. Multiple results will be returned as `list`:

content_type = client.content_type('cat')
content_type.description # "Meow."

System Properties behave the same and can be accessed via the #sys method:

content_type.id # => 'cat'
entry.type # => 'Entry'
asset.sys # { 'id': '...', 'type': '...' }

Using different locales

Entries can have multiple locales, by default, the client only fetches the entry with only its default locale. If you want to fetch a different locale you can do the following:

entries = client.entries({'locale': 'de-DE'})

Then all the fields will be fetched for the requested locale.

Contentful Delivery API also allows to fetch all locales, you can do so by doing:

entries = client.entries({'content_type': 'cat', 'locale': '*'})

# assuming the entry has a field called name
my_spanish_name = entries.first.fields('es-AR')['name']

When requesting multiple locales, the object accessor shortcuts only work for the default locale.

Links

You can easily request a resource that is represented by a link by calling #resolve:

happycat = client.entry('happycat')
happycat.space
# <Link[Space] id='cfexampleapi'>
happycat.space.resolve(client)
# <Space[Contentful Example API] id='cfexampleapi'>

This works for any kind of Resource.

Assets

There is a helpful method to add image resize options for an asset image:

client.asset('happycat').url()
# => "//images.contentful.com/cfexampleapi/3MZPnjZTIskAIIkuuosCss/
#     382a48dfa2cb16c47aa2c72f7b23bf09/happycatw.jpg"

client.asset('happycat').url(w=300, h=200, fm='jpg', q=100)
# => "//images.contentful.com/cfexampleapi/3MZPnjZTIskAIIkuuosCss/
#     382a48dfa2cb16c47aa2c72f7b23bf09/happycatw.jpg?w=300&h=200&fm=jpg&q=100"

Entries

Entries can have fields in it's default locale accessible with accessor methods:

nyancat = client.entry('nyancat')
nyancat.name
# 'Nyan Cat'

Client Configuration Options

space_id: Space ID of your target space.

access_token: API Access Token (Delivery by default, Preview if overriding api_url).

api_url: (optional) URL of the Contentful Target API, defaults to Delivery API (can be overriden for Preview API).

api_version: (optional) Target version of the Contentful API.

default_locale: (optional) Default Locale for your Space, defaults to 'en-US'.

https: (optional) Boolean determining wether to use https or http, defaults to True.

authorization_as_header: (optional) Boolean determining wether to send access_token through a header or via GET params, defaults to True.

raw_mode: (optional) Boolean determining wether to process the response or return it raw after each API call, defaults to True.

gzip_encoded: (optional) Boolean determining wether to accept gzip encoded results, defaults to True.

raise_errors: (optional) Boolean determining wether to raise an exception on requests that aren't successful, defaults to True.

content_type_cache: (optional) Boolean determining wether to store a Cache of the Content Types in order to properly coerce Entry fields, defaults to True.

proxy_host: (optional) URL for Proxy, defaults to None.

proxy_port: (optional) Port for Proxy, defaults to None.

proxy_username: (optional) Username for Proxy, defaults to None.

proxy_password: (optional) Password for Proxy, defaults to None.

max_rate_limit_retries: (optional) Maximum amount of retries after RateLimitError, defaults to 1.

max_rate_limit_wait: (optional) Timeout (in seconds) for waiting for retry after RateLimitError, defaults to 60.

Synchronization

The client also includes a wrapper for the synchronization endpoint. You can call it either with initial=True or with a previous sync_token, additional options are described in the API Documentation:

sync = client.sync({'initial': True}) # Returns all content currently in space
# <SyncPage next_sync_token='w5ZGw6JFwqZmVcKsE8Kow4grw45QdybCnV_Cg8OASMKpwo1UY8K8bsKFwqJrw7DDhcKnM2RDOVbDt1E-wo7CnDjChMKKGsK1wrzCrBzCqMOpZAwOOcOvCcOAwqHDv0XCiMKaOcOxZA8BJUzDr8K-wo1lNx7DnHE'>

sync.items
# [<Entry[1t9IbcfdCk6m04uISSsaIK] id='5ETMRzkl9KM4omyMwKAOki'>,
#   <Entry[1t9IbcfdCk6m04uISSsaIK] id='7qVBlCjpWE86Oseo40gAEY'>,
#   <Entry[1t9IbcfdCk6m04uISSsaIK] id='ge1xHyH3QOWucKWCCAgIG'>,
#   <Entry[1t9IbcfdCk6m04uISSsaIK] id='4MU1s3potiUEM2G4okYOqw'>,
#   <Asset id='1x0xpXu4pSGS4OukSyWGUK' url='//images.contentful.com/cfexampleapi/1x0xpXu4pSGS4OukSyWGUK/cc1239c6385428ef26f4180190532818/doge.jpg'>,
#   <Entry[dog] id='jake'>,
#   <Entry[cat] id='happycat'>,
#   <Entry[dog] id='6KntaYXaHSyIw8M6eo26OK'>,
#   <Entry[human] id='finn'>,
#   <Entry[cat] id='nyancat'>,
#   <Asset id='jake' url='//images.contentful.com/cfexampleapi/4hlteQAXS8iS0YCMU6QMWg/2a4d826144f014109364ccf5c891d2dd/jake.png'>,
#   <Asset id='happycat' url='//images.contentful.com/cfexampleapi/3MZPnjZTIskAIIkuuosCss/382a48dfa2cb16c47aa2c72f7b23bf09/happycatw.jpg'>,
#   <Asset id='nyancat' url='//images.contentful.com/cfexampleapi/4gp6taAwW4CmSgumq2ekUm/9da0cd1936871b8d72343e895a00d611/Nyan_cat_250px_frame.png'>,
#   <Entry[cat] id='garfield'>]


sync = client.sync({'initial': True, 'type': 'Deletion'}) # Only returns deleted entries and assets
# <SyncPage next_sync_token='w5ZGw6JFwqZmVcKsE8Kow4grw45QdybCnV_Cg8OASMKpwo1UY8K8bsKFwqJrw7DDhcKnM2RDOVbDt1E-wo7CnDjChMKKGsK1w5zCrA3CnU7CgEvDtsK6w7B2wrRZwrwPIgDCjVo8PMOoUcK2wqTCl8O1wpY8wpjCkGM'>

sync.items
# [<DeletedEntry id='4rPdazIwWkuuKEAQgemSmO'>,
#    <DeletedAsset id='5c6VY0gWg0gwaIeYkUUiqG'>,
#    <DeletedAsset id='finn'>,
#    <DeletedAsset id='3MZPnjZTIskAIIkuuosCss'>,
#    <DeletedAsset id='4gp6taAwW4CmSgumq2ekUm'>,
#    <DeletedAsset id='1uf1qqyZuEuiwmigoUYkeu'>,
#    <DeletedAsset id='4hlteQAXS8iS0YCMU6QMWg'>,
#    <DeletedEntry id='CVebBDcQsSsu6yKKIayy'>]

sync = sync.next(client) # equivalent to client.sync(sync_token=sync.next_sync_token)

Logging

To use the logger, use the standard library logging module:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

client.entries()
# INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): cdn.contentful.com
# DEBUG:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:"GET /spaces/cfexampleapi/entries HTTP/1.1" 200 1994

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Contentful GmbH. See LICENSE for further details.

Contributing

Feel free to improve this tool by submitting a Pull Request.