Can someone suggest a well-designed Python wrapper of a REST API? [closed]

Question

I'm writing a new one (for Netflix), and am simply wondering if there are any great reference libraries for me to study.

In particular I'm looking for clever ways to express a single REST endpoint in code, which needs a least a URL, method, and params, and in the case of Netflix, information about the authentication level required.

To be clear, I am looking for idiomatic and well-written Python libraries covering REST APIs. If the library is blazing fast, but is difficult to use and/or poorly written, I'm probably less interested.

Answer 1

This is a really old question, but since I came to it still, I thought I'd provide a quick answer.

I've used the GitHub3 wrapper a fair bit and I've always been really impressed by the documentation. One issue with using it as a guide is that it's absolutely huge.

Another nice wrapper is the Gdax-python wrapper for accessing the Gdax exchange for cryptocurrencies. Though it's seriously lacking in-code documentation and I'm not a fan of having separate clients for public API calls and authenticated API calls, I've always found it remarkably easy to use.

I'm sure there are a ton of other ones, but many of the ones I've used fall into some major traps. A couple personal recommendations:

• have a single client class that manages all communications

• set up a client requests.Session() object to set up all auth/header information for all calls

• use a single _make_requests class function that assembles the url, sends the request, and handles all the various HTTP status codes that can be returned.