pombredanne / packet-python

The python API library for the Packet platform

Packet

A Python client for the Packet API.

Installation

The packet python api library can be installed using pip: pip install packet-python

Package information available here:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/packet-python

Documentation

Full Packet API documenation is available here: https://www.packet.net/developers/api/

Examples

List projects

import packet
manager = packet.Manager(auth_token="yourapiauthtoken")

projects = manager.list_projects()
for project in projects:
    print(project)

List plans

import packet
manager = packet.Manager(auth_token="yourapiauthtoken")

plans = manager.list_plans()
for plan in plans:
    print(plan)
    if 'cpus' in plan.specs:
        print(plan.specs['cpus'][0]['count'])

Creating a Device

import packet
manager = packet.Manager(auth_token="yourapiauthtoken")

device = manager.create_device(project_id='project-id',
                               hostname='node-name-of-your-choice',
                               plan='baremetal_1', facility='ewr1',
                               operating_system='ubuntu_14_04')
print(device)

Checking the status and rebooting a Device

import packet
manager = packet.Manager(auth_token="yourapiauthtoken")

device = manager.get_device('device-id')
print(device.status)
device.reboot()

Listing all devices, limiting to 50 per page

Packet API defaults to a limit of 10 per page

import packet
manager = packet.Manager(auth_token="yourapiauthtoken")
params = {
    'per_page': 50
}
devices = manager.list_devices(project_id='project_id', params = params)
print(devices)

Contributing

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
• Fork the project.
• Start a feature/bugfix branch.
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.
• You can test your changes with the test/tests.sh script, which is what travis uses to check builds.

Credits

CargoCulted with much gratitude from: https://github.com/koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2017 Packet Host. See License for further details.

Changes

See the Changelog for further details.