Getting Started with Python

This integration guide follows the Quick Start Guide and assumes you have you have fully completed the "Hands-on" path. You should be able to consume the API by browsing the URL http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants.

If you haven't gone through the Quick Start Guide, the way you request a Strapi API with Python remains the same except that you do not fetch the same content.

Create a Python file

Be sure to have Python installed on your computer.

touch script.py

Use an HTTP client

Many HTTP clients are available, the following examples use Requests. To install Requests run the following command in your terminal:

python -m pip install requests

GET Request to your collection type

Execute a GET request on the restaurant collection type in order to fetch all your restaurants.

Be sure that you activated the find permission for the restaurant collection type.

requests.get("http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants")

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "attributes": {
        "name": "Biscotte Restaurant",
        "description": "Biscotte restaurant! Restaurant Biscotte offers a cuisine based on fresh, quality products, often local, organic when possible, and always produced by passionate producers.",
        "createdAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:01.330Z",
        "updatedAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:44.945Z",
        "publishedAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:44.943Z"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "pagination": {
      "page": 1,
      "pageSize": 25,
      "pageCount": 1,
      "total": 1
    }
  }
}

Example

import json
import requests

class Restaurant:
    def __init__(self):
        self.api_url = "http://localhost:1337/api"

    def all(self):
        r = requests.get(self.api_url + "/restaurants")
        return r.json()

restaurant = Restaurant()
print(restaurant.all())

POST Request your collection type

Execute a POST request on the restaurant collection type in order to create a restaurant.

Be sure that you activated the create permission for the restaurant collection type and the find permission for the category Collection type. Add the ?populate=categories query parameter to return categories with the response.

In this example a japanese category has been created which has the id: 3.

requests.post(
    "http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants",
    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
    params={"populate": "categories"},
    data=json.dumps(
        {
            "data": {
                "name": "Dolemon Sushi",
                "description": "Unmissable Japanese Sushi restaurant. The cheese and salmon makis are delicious",
                "categories": [3],
            }
        }
    ),
)

{
  "data": {
    "id": 2,
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Dolemon Sushi",
      "description": "Unmissable Japanese Sushi restaurant. The cheese and salmon makis are delicious",
      "createdAt": "2022-07-31T15:36:56.336Z",
      "updatedAt": "2022-07-31T15:36:56.336Z",
      "publishedAt": "2022-07-31T15:36:56.336Z",
      "categories": {
        "data": [
          {
            "id": 3,
            "attributes": {
              "name": "japanese",
              "createdAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:35.040Z",
              "updatedAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:35.631Z",
              "publishedAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:35.629Z"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "meta": {}
}

Example

import json
import requests

class Restaurant:
    def __init__(self):
        self.api_url = "http://localhost:1337/api"

    def all(self):
        r = requests.get(self.api_url + "/restaurants")
        return r.json()

    def create(self, params):
        r = requests.post(
            self.api_url + "/restaurants",
            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
            data=json.dumps(
                {
                    "data": {
                        "name": params["name"],
                        "description": params["description"],
                        "categories": params["categories"],
                    }
                }
            ),
        )
        return r.json()


restaurant = Restaurant()
print(
    restaurant.create(
        {
            "name": "Dolemon Sushi",
            "description": "Unmissable Japanese Sushi restaurant. The cheese and salmon makis are delicious",
            "categories": [3],
        }
    )
)

PUT Request your collection type

Execute a PUT request on the restaurant collection type in order to update the category of a restaurant.

Be sure that you activated the put permission for the restaurant collection type.

requests.put(
    "http://localhost:1337/api/restaurants/2",
    params={"populate": "categories"},
    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
    data=json.dumps(
        {
            "data": {
                "categories": [2],
            }
        }
    ),
)

{
  "data": {
    "id": 2,
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Dolemon Sushi",
      "description": null,
      "createdAt": "2022-07-31T15:43:44.039Z",
      "updatedAt": "2022-07-31T15:46:29.903Z",
      "publishedAt": "2022-07-31T15:43:44.038Z",
      "categories": {
        "data": [
          {
            "id": 2,
            "attributes": {
              "name": "Brunch",
              "createdAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:23.472Z",
              "updatedAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:25.180Z",
              "publishedAt": "2022-07-31T11:57:25.179Z"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "meta": {}
}

Example

import json
import requests

class Restaurant:
    def __init__(self):
        self.api_url = "http://localhost:1337/api"

    def all(self):
        r = requests.get(self.api_url + "/restaurants")
        return r.json()

    def create(self, params):
        r = requests.post(
            self.api_url + "/restaurants",
            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
            data=json.dumps(
                {
                    "data": {
                        "name": params["name"],
                        "description": params["description"],
                        "categories": params["categories"],
                    }
                }
            ),
        )
        return r.json()

    def update(self, id, params):
        r = requests.put(
            self.api_url + "/restaurants/" + str(id),
            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
            params={"populate": "categories"},
            data=json.dumps({"data": {"categories": params["categories"]}}),
        )
        return r.json()


restaurant = Restaurant()
print(restaurant.update(2, {"categories": [2]}))