Frappe Client

Simple Frappe-like Python wrapper for Frappe REST API

Install

git clone https://github.com/frappe/frappe-client
pip install -e frappe-client

API

FrappeClient has a frappe like API

Login

Login to the Frappe HTTP Server by creating a new FrappeClient object

from frappeclient import FrappeClient

conn = FrappeClient("example.com")
conn.login("[email protected]", "password")

Use token based authentication

from frappeclient import FrappeClient

client = FrappeClient("https://example.com")
client.authenticate("my_api_key", "my_api_secret")

For demonstration purposes only! Never store any credentials in your source code. Instead, you could set them as environment variables and fetch them with os.getenv().

get_list

Get a list of documents from the server

Arguments:

• doctype
• fields: List of fields to fetch
• filters: Dict of filters
• limit_start: Start at row ID (default 0)
• limit_page_length: Page length
• order_by: sort key and order (default is modified desc)

users = conn.get_list('User', fields = ['name', 'first_name', 'last_name'], , filters = {'user_type':'System User'})

Example of filters:

• { "user_type": ("!=", "System User") }
• { "creation": (">", "2020-01-01") }
• { "name": "[email protected]" }

insert

Insert a new document to the server

Arguments:

• doc: Document object

doc = conn.insert({
	"doctype": "Customer",
	"customer_name": "Example Co",
	"customer_type": "Company",
	"website": "example.net"
})

get_doc

Fetch a document from the server

Arguments

• doctype
• name

doc = conn.get_doc('Customer', 'Example Co')

get_value

Fetch a single value from the server

Arguments:

• doctype
• fieldname
• filters

customer_name = conn.get_value("Customer", "name", {"website": "example.net"})

update

Update a document (if permitted)

Arguments:

• doc: JSON document object

doc = conn.get_doc('Customer', 'Example Co')
doc['phone'] = '000000000'
conn.update(doc)

delete

Delete a document (if permitted)

Arguments:

• doctype
• name

conn.delete('Customer', 'Example Co')

Example

from frappeclient import FrappeClient

conn = FrappeClient("example.com", "[email protected]", "password")
new_notes = [
	{"doctype": "Note", "title": "Sing", "public": True},
	{"doctype": "Note", "title": "a", "public": True},
	{"doctype": "Note", "title": "Song", "public": True},
	{"doctype": "Note", "title": "of", "public": True},
	{"doctype": "Note", "title": "sixpence", "public": True}
]

for note in new_notes:
	print(conn.insert(note))

# get note starting with s
notes = conn.get_list('Note',
	filters={'title': ('like', 's')},
	fields=["title", "public"]
)

Example

See example.py for more info

License

MIT