pyindicoapi

A Python API wrapper for the CERN Indico API.

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Installation

cd pyindicoapi
pip install .

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Usage

in order to use the Indico API you need an excess token and the url of your Indico instance

from pyindicoapi import IndicoAPI

API_TOKEN= "my Token"
BASE_URL = "https://my.indico.server"

api = IndicoAPI( BASE_URL, API_TOKEN)

Categories

categories = api.list_categories()
print(categories)

# get subcategories of category with id 1
subcategories = api.list_categories(1)

# get a category (category id = 1)
category = api.get_category(1)

Events

List events

api.list_events()

Get an event

# get event with id = 1
event = get_event(1)

Custom resource

You may also call a custom resource from the Indico API according to the API resources

resource = api.get_custom_resource(resource_name, resource_id, location=None, output_type='json')

where:

• resource_name is the specific resource you try to call (e.g. categ, event, room)
• resource_id is the id of the resource
• location location of the resource, e.g. the location of a room.
• output_type desired output format (e.g. json, jsonp, xml, html, ics, atom, bin) [default is json]