apitracker python sdk

This is a library to monkeypatch http.client to send request to apitracker proxy.

apitracker is API integration reliability as a service. It provides a network proxy that lets developers adds monitoring, error alerting, auto retry and more to their API integration, all with zero code change.

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Installation

apitracker-python-sdk is available on PyPI and thus can be installed with pip on most platforms.

$ pip install apitracker-python-sdk

Getting started

This example shows how to use instantiate the library

• Sign up for an account with apitracker
• Create an api and enter the api hostname, e.g. api.xkcd.com
• Copy the apitracker proxy hostname, e.g. xxxx.apitracker.net
• Put the following snippet of code, ideally at the top of your python program

from apitracker_python_sdk import Patcher
apitracker_config = {
    '<original api hostname>': {
        'url': '<apitracker proxy host name>'
    }
}
apitracker_patcher = Patcher(apitracker_config)
apitracker_patcher.patch()

• To disable:

apitracker_patcher.unpatch()

To do

Add more control, such as percentage of traffic to go through apitracker vs the original endpoint