swh.web.client.client module¶

Python client for the Software Heritage Web API

Light wrapper around requests for the archive API, taking care of data conversions and pagination.

from swh.web.client.client import WebAPIClient
cli = WebAPIClient()

# retrieve any archived object via its SWHID
cli.get('swh:1:rev:aafb16d69fd30ff58afdd69036a26047f3aebdc6')

# same, but for specific object types
cli.revision('swh:1:rev:aafb16d69fd30ff58afdd69036a26047f3aebdc6')

# get() always retrieve entire objects, following pagination
# WARNING: this might *not* be what you want for large objects
cli.get('swh:1:snp:6a3a2cf0b2b90ce7ae1cf0a221ed68035b686f5a')

# type-specific methods support explicit iteration through pages
next(cli.snapshot('swh:1:snp:cabcc7d7bf639bbe1cc3b41989e1806618dd5764'))

swh.web.client.client.typify_json(data: Any, obj_type: str) → Any[source]¶

Type API responses using pythonic types where appropriate

The following conversions are performed:

identifiers are converted from strings to SWHID instances
timestamps are converted from strings to datetime.datetime objects

class swh.web.client.client.WebAPIClient(api_url: str = 'https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1', bearer_token: Optional[str] = None)[source]¶

Bases: object

Client for the Software Heritage archive Web API, see

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/

get(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Any[source]¶

Retrieve information about an object of any kind

Dispatcher method over the more specific methods content(), directory(), etc.

Note that this method will buffer the entire output in case of long, iterable output (e.g., for snapshot()), see the iter() method for streaming.

iter(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Iterator[Dict[str, Any]][source]¶

Stream over the information about an object of any kind

Streaming variant of get()

content(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Dict[str, Any][source]¶

Retrieve information about a content object

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
typify – if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

directory(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → List[Dict[str, Any]][source]¶

Retrieve information about a directory object

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
typify – if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

revision(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Dict[str, Any][source]¶

Retrieve information about a revision object

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
typify – if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

release(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Dict[str, Any][source]¶

Retrieve information about a release object

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
typify – if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

snapshot(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Iterator[Dict[str, Any]][source]¶

Retrieve information about a snapshot object

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
typify – if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Returns

an iterator over partial snapshots (dictionaries mapping branch names to information about where they point to), each containing a subset of available branches

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

visits(origin: str, per_page: Optional[int] = None, last_visit: Optional[int] = None, typify: bool = True, **req_args) → Iterator[Dict[str, Any]][source]¶

List visits of an origin

Parameters

origin – the URL of a software origin
per_page – the number of visits to list
last_visit – visit to start listing from
typify – if True, convert return value to pythonic types wherever possible, otherwise return raw JSON types (default: True)
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Returns

an iterator over visits of the origin

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

known(swhids: Iterator[Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str]], **req_args) → Dict[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, Dict[Any, Any]][source]¶

Verify the presence in the archive of several objects at once

Parameters: swhids – SWHIDs of the objects to verify
Returns: a dictionary mapping object SWHIDs to archive information about them; the dictionary includes a “known” key associated to a boolean value that is true if and only if the object is known to the archive
Raises: requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

content_exists(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], **req_args) → bool[source]¶

Check if a content object exists in the archive

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.head()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

directory_exists(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], **req_args) → bool[source]¶

Check if a directory object exists in the archive

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.head()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

revision_exists(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], **req_args) → bool[source]¶

Check if a revision object exists in the archive

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.head()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

release_exists(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], **req_args) → bool[source]¶

Check if a release object exists in the archive

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.head()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

snapshot_exists(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], **req_args) → bool[source]¶

Check if a snapshot object exists in the archive

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.head()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails

content_raw(swhid: Union[swh.model.identifiers.SWHID, str], **req_args) → Iterator[bytes][source]¶

Iterate over the raw content of a content object

Parameters

swhid – object persistent identifier
req_args – extra keyword arguments for requests.get()

Raises

requests.HTTPError – if HTTP request fails