Python

A library for creating fully typed and declarative API clients, quickly and easily.

What would an API client with this library look like?

For a single API endpoint over HTTP GET, it could look something like this:

from dataclasses import dataclass
import quickapi


# An example type that will be part of the API response
@dataclass
class Fact:
    fact: str
    length: int


# What the API response should look like
@dataclass
class ResponseBody:
    current_page: int
    data: list[Fact]


# Now we can define our API
class MyApi(quickapi.BaseApi[ResponseBody]):
    url = "https://catfact.ninja/facts"
    response_body = ResponseBody

And you would use it like this:

response = MyApi().execute()

# That's it! Now `response` is fully typed (including IDE support) and conforms to our `ResponseBody` definition
assert isinstance(response.body, ResponseBody)
assert isinstance(response.body.data[0], Fact)

It also supports attrs or pydantic (or dataclasses as above) for your model/type definitions, including validation and types/data conversion.

I have a lot more examples (e.g. POST requests, query string params, authentication, error handling, model validation and conversion, multiple API endpoints) on the repo's README.

I've shared this one here before but it's been a while and I've added a lot of features since.

Github repo: https://github.com/martinn/quickapiclient