python-vkontakte 1.1.2

Installation

Via pip:

pip install python-vkontakte

Api

import pyvkontakte
api = pyvkontakte.VkontakteApi()
api.call('users.get', user_ids=1) # [{'last_name': 'Дуров', 'id': 1, 'first_name': 'Павел'}]

or calling method via class attribute:

api.users_get(user_ids=1) # [{'last_name': 'Дуров', 'id': 1, 'first_name': 'Павел'}]

Are both the same. In a second form, it is a method name where dots replaced with underscores - wall.getById will be wall_getById and so on.

If you want to call some private api, which require access token, just create a api class with it:

pyvkontakte.VkontakteApi('access token')

Using different api version:

pyvkontakte.VkontakteApi(v='5.50')

If some error occures after api request (response json contains error insead of response key), pyvkontakte.VkontakteApiError will be raised. Special attribute json will be avaible on exception object, additionally exception str representation will contain error description and error code.

Authorization

For obtaining access token, you can use pyvkontakte.auth method.

pyvkontakte.auth(login, password, client_id, scope)

which will return dict with keys access_token, expires_in, user_id. If login or password is invalid, pyvkontakte.InvalidCredentials will be raised. If some parsing error occurs, pyvkontakte.ParsingError will be raised. Both pyvkontakte.InvalidCredentials and pyvkontakte.ParsingError are subclasses of pyvkontakte.VkontakteAuthError.

There is also a logger pyvkontakte (pyvkontakte.auth and pyvkontakte.api) enabled. pyvkontakte.api logs an INFO every request made with request params, and DEBUG with json of response