Mezzanine API Client

A remote CLI and Python client SDK for Mezzanine API.

It enables a user or service to remotely read or write to Mezzanine CMS using Python or the command line. For example, you can write an article in Markdown on your laptop and type a simple command to automatically upload it and create a new blog post from it on your website.

Installation

$ pip install -U mezzanine-client

Prerequisites

Install Mezzanine API either locally (for development) or remotely (for production), as we need an API to connect to.

Once Mezzanine API is installed,

1. Login to your Mezzanine CMS Admin Panel (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/)

2. In the menu, click OAuth > Applications

3. Create a new application with the following details:

    App Name: Mezzanine Python Client
    App ID: id
    App Secret: secret
    Client Type: Confidential
    Grant Type: Code
    Redirect URI: https://httpbin.org/get
   

For development purposes, you can define the simple app ID and secret above, otherwise use the automatically generated ones.

CLI Documentation

CLI Documentation Website

Configuration

Generally, you must set at least three configuration options: API URL, OAuth App ID, and OAuth App Secret. These settings correspond to the location of your Mezzanine API instance and your OAuth credentials to authenticate with it (as was discussed further in the above Prerequisites section).

$ mezzanine-cli config api_url http://127.0.0.1:8000/api
$ mezzanine-cli config client_id id
$ mezzanine-cli config client_secret secret

You can also see your current configuration and available options by issuing the mezzanine-cli config command without any arguments. Note that the refresh_token setting should not be altered.

Getting started

Some examples:

# List all posts (most recent first).
$ mezzanine-cli posts list

# Get the post with the ID of 2.
$ mezzanine-cli posts get 2

# Create a post from a Markdown file.
$ mezzanine-cli posts create \
  --title='Test Post from API Client' \
  --content-file=~/Desktop/test.md \
  --categories='Test,Fun' \
  --markdown

Just add --help to any command in order to get help on the command line:

# General help.
$ mezzanine-cli

# View available options for creating posts.
$ mezzanine-cli posts create --help

Finally, if you wish to clear the credentials and reset CLI configuration, you can do so by running:

$ mezzanine-cli logout

SDK Documentation

SDK Documentation Website

Example code to display recent blog posts:

from mezzanine_client import Mezzanine
api = Mezzanine( 'app_id', 'app_secret' )

# Recent posts
published_posts = api.get_posts(offset=0, limit=10)
for post in published_posts:
    print('{} (ID: {})'.format(post['title'], post['id']))

Further examples, such as for creating, listing, and retrieving blog posts, can be found in the examples directory.

Community

Join us in the Mezzanine API chat room or leave a message and we will try to get back to you.

Feel free to star Mezzanine Client on Github to show your support and monitor updates.

Please file a ticket or contribute a pull request on GitHub for bugs or feature requests.

License

Licensed under the ISC License.

Created by George Cushen.