with-python

StepZen Example: with-google-analytics

Introduction

This project builds a GraphQL API with StepZen and consumes it using Python.

Getting Started

You'll need to create a StepZen account first. Once you've got that set up, git clone this repository onto your machine and open the working directory:

git clone https://github.com/stepzen-dev/examples.git
cd examples/with-python

Install Dependencies and Start Development Server

Once you've got your Python virtual environment set up and running, install these dependencies:

pip3 install requests
pip3 install dotenv import load_dotenv
pip3 install os

Your .env should look something like:

KEY= apikey {{YOUR STEPZEN API KEY HERE}}

Run StepZen

Open your terminal and install the StepZen CLI:

npm install -g stepzen

You need to login here using the command:

stepzen login

After you've installed the CLI and logged in, run:

stepzen start

In you terminal the endpoint at which your GraphQL API is deployed is logged. A proxy of the GraphiQL playground is available at your suggested endpoint (in example http://localhost:5001/api/with-python), which you can use to explore the GraphQL API.

Run Python

In your virtual environment and inside your with-python folder in your terminal, run /Users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/with-python/env/bin/python /Users/YOUR_USERNAME)HERE/with-python/main.py to see the data coming back from your GraphQL API.

Another example - Integrating Weather API

• Please follow the above steps first of creating the stepzen account and cloning the repo.

1. Create a new file called integration.py in your project's root directory.

2. Import the requests library.

3. Define a function called weather that takes two arguments: a city name and an API key.

4. Make a GET request to the StepZen Weather API using the city name and API key.

5. Parse the response JSON and return the current temperature in the city.

• Code just for your reference

import os
import sys

import requests

# Please set your StepZen access key here
access_key = "Your StepZen access key"

# Please set the URL for the StepZen weather API endpoint
url = "https://api.stepzen.com/v1/weather"

# Please set the latitude and longitude for the location
# for which you want to get the weather information
latitude = "37.386"
longitude = "-122.08"

# Please set the start date and end date for which you want to get the weather information
start_date = "2019-01-01"
end_date = "2019-01-31"

# Please set the units for the weather information
units = "m"

# Set the headers for the HTTP request
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-Api-Key": access_key
}

# Set the parameters for the HTTP request
params = {
    "latitude": latitude,
    "longitude": longitude,
    "startDate": start_date,
    "endDate": end_date,
    "units": units
}

# Execute the HTTP request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)

# Check for HTTP codes other than 200
if response.status_code != 200:
    print("HTTP error: {} - {}".format(response.status_code, response.text))
    sys.exit(1)

# Print the response from the StepZen weather API
print(response.json())

Learn More

You can learn more in the StepZen documentation. Questions? Head over to Discord or GitHub Discussions to ask questions.