patreon-python

Interact with the Patreon API via OAuth.

Get the egg from PyPI, typically via pip:

pip install patreon

or

echo "patreon" >> requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Make sure that, however you install patreon, you install its dependencies as well

Step 1. Get your client_id and client_secret

Visit the OAuth Documentation Page while logged in as a Patreon creator to register your client.

This will provide you with a client_id and a client_secret.

Step 2. Use this library

e.g., in a Flask route

import patreon
from flask import request
...

client_id = None      # Replace with your data
client_secret = None  # Replace with your data
creator_id = None     # Replace with your data

@app.route('/oauth/redirect')
def oauth_redirect():
    oauth_client = patreon.OAuth(client_id, client_secret)
    tokens = oauth_client.get_tokens(request.args.get('code'), '/oauth/redirect')
    access_token = tokens['access_token']

    api_client = patreon.API(access_token)
    user_response = api_client.get_identity()
    user = user_response.data()
    memberships = user.relationship('memberships')
    membership = memberships[0] if memberships and len(memberships) > 0 else None

    # pass user and membership to your view to render as needed

You'll notice that the user_response does not return raw JSON data. Instead, it returns a JSON:API resource object, to simplify traversing the normalized graph data that the Patreon API returns. Some available methods are:

• response.data() to get the main resource
• response.data().attribute('full_name') to get the full_name attribute from the response data
• response.data().relationship('campaign').attribute('pledge_sum') to get the pledge_sum attribute from the campaign resource related to the main response data
• response.find_resource_by_type_and_id('user', '123') to find an arbitrary resource

Step 3. (Optional) Customize your usage

patreon.API instances have methods for interacting with the API based on the routes described in the docs. All methods include includes and fields parameters.

ie:

• get_identity(includes=None, fields=None)

List methods take page_size and cursor methods as well, ie:

• get_campaigns(page_size, cursor=None, includes=None, fields=None)

The includes and fields arguments to these methods specify the related resources and the resource attributes you want returned by our API, as per the JSON:API specification. The lists of valid includes and fields arguments are provided on patreon.schemas. For instance, if you wanted to request the total amount a patron has ever paid to your campaign, which is not included by default, you could do:

api_client = patreon.API(patron_access_token)
patron_response = api_client.get_identity(None, {
    'membership': patreon.schemas.member.Attributes.currently_entitled_amount_cents
})

patreon.API also has a utility method extract_cursor which you can use to extract pagination links from our json:api response documents:

api_client = patreon.API(creator_access_token)
campaign_id = api_client.get_campaigns().data()[0].id()
memberships = []
cursor = None
while True:
    members_response = api_client.get_campaigns_by_id_members(campaign_id, 10, cursor=cursor)
    members += members_response.data()
    cursor = api_client.extract_cursor(members_response)
    if not cursor:
        break
names_and_membershipss = [{
    'full_name': member.relationship('user').attribute('full_name'),
    'amount_cents': member.attribute('amount_cents'),
} for member in members]

Developing

1. Clone this repo
2. Install dependencies
   • If you're on Python 3:

     python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && python setup.py develop
     

   • If you're on Python 2:

     virtualenv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install -e . && pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
     

3. git checkout -b my-branch-name
4. make your edits, writing tests for any new functionality
5. make sure tests pass with python setup.py test
6. git push
7. Open a pull request, explaining your changes (both problem and solution) clearly