jcarah / jt_python_api

Python API Samples

Python examples of how to use the Looker API

What you can find here

• A copy of the Looker API 3.0 SDK
• Sample files of various tasks using the API

Relevant Articles

Moving Looks: https://discourse.looker.com/t/moving-a-look-between-looker-servers-using-the-looker-api-and-the-python-requests-library/

Getting Started

• Clone/Download the Repo.
• Create a config.yml file with the following format:

hosts:
 'localhost':
    host: 'https://domain.looker.com:19999/api/3.0/'
    secret: 'asdfjkl'
    token: 'qweruiop'

• Run any file in the shell with python <<filename>> arg1

Scripts

File	Description	How to	Example
delete_look.py	Illustrates how to delete a look or a list of looks delimited by newlines	Make sure you have the host in your config.yml file and adjust the source look variables at the top of the script.	python delete_look.py 14
delete_dashboard.py	Illustrated how to delete a dashboard or a list of dashboards delimited by newlines	Make sure you have the host in your config.yml file and adjust the source look variables at the top of the script.	python delete_dashboard.py list.txt
refactor_look_model.py	Allows you to change the model that a Look (or list of Looks) is powered by	Make sure you have the host in your config.yml file and adjust the source look variables at the top of the script.	python refactor_look_model.py 25 new_model
get_look.py	Illustrates how to get the data from a look	Make sure you have the host in your config.yml file and adjust the source look variables at the top of the script.
move_look.py	Illustrates how to move a look between servers, or between the same server	Make sure you have both hosts in your config.yml file and adjust the source look, destination space variables at the top of the script.
get_data_dictionary.py	Put together a list of each field, and various attributes in your data model, this outputs a CSV	Make sure your host is configured in the config.yml file	python