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Client Wrapper for the HouseCanary API

Project description

The HouseCanary API Python Client provides an easy interface to call the HouseCanary API.

API documentation

Full documentation is available at https://api-docs.housecanary.com

Installation

To install:

pip install housecanary

Basic Usage

import housecanary
client = housecanary.ApiClient("my_api_key", "my_api_secret")
result = client.property.value(("10216 N Willow Ave", "64157"))

# result is an instance of housecanary.response.Response
print result.json()

Authentication

When you create an instance of an ApiClient, you need to give it your API key and secret. You can manage these in your settings page at https://valuereport.housecanary.com/#/settings.

You can pass these values to the ApiClient constructor:

client = housecanary.ApiClient("my_api_key", "my_api_secret")

Alternatively, instead of passing in your key and secret to the constructor, you can store them in the following environment variables:

  • HC_API_KEY

  • HC_API_SECRET

Creating an instance of ApiClient with no arguments will read your key and secret from those environment variables:

client = housecanary.ApiClient()

Usage Details

Endpoint methods

The ApiClient class provides a property wrapper which contains various methods for calling the Value Report and Analytic Feed endpoints of the HouseCanary API:

Analytic Feed Endpoints:

  • census

  • details

  • flood

  • mortgage_lien

  • msa_details

  • nod

  • owner_occupied

  • rental_value

  • sales_history

  • school

  • value

  • value_forecase

  • zip_details

  • zip_hpi_forecast

  • zip_hpi_historical

  • zip_volatility

  • component_mget

Value Report Endpoint:

  • value_report

More wrapper objects may be added to ApiClient later like “zipcode” and “lat_lng”.

Args:

All of the Analytic Feed endpoint methods take an address_data argument. address_data can be in one of two forms:

A Json formatted list like:

[{"address":"82 County Line Rd", "zipcode":"72173", "meta":"extra info"}]

Or, a list of (address, zipcode, meta) tuples like:

[("82 County Line Rd", "72173", "extra info")]

The “meta” field is optional. If you’re only providing one address, you can provide a tuple on it’s own:

("82 County Line Rd", "72173")

All of the endpoint methods of this class return a Response object or the output of a custom OutputGenerator if one was specified in the constructor.

Example:

client = housecanary.ApiClient()
result = client.property.value([("10216 N Willow Ave", "64157"), ("82 County Line Rd", "72173")])

Value Report:

The value_report method behaves differently than the other endpoint methods. It only supports one address at a time, and it takes some extra, optional parameters:

Args:
  • address (str)

  • zipcode (str)

Kwargs:
  • report_type - “full” or “summary”. Optional. Default is “full”

  • format_type - “json”, “pdf” or “all”. Optional. Default is “json”

Example:

client = housecanary.ApiClient()
# get Value Report in JSON format with "summary" report_type.
result = client.property.value_report("10216 N Willow Ave", "64157", "summary", "json")
# print the JSON output
print result.json()

# get Value Report in PDF format with "full" report_type.
result = client.property.value_report("10216 N Willow Ave", "64157", format_type="pdf")
# result is binary data of the PDF.

Learn more about the various endpoints in the API docs.

Component_mget endpoint

You may want to retrieve data from multiple Analytic Feed endpoints in one request. In this case, you can use the component_mget method. The component_mget method takes an address_data argument just like the other endpoint methods. Pass in a list of Analytic Feed endpoint names as the second argument. Note that value_report cannot be included.

Example:

client = housecanary.ApiClient()
result = client.property.component_mget(("10216 N Willow Ave", "64157"), ["property/school", "property/census", "property/details"])

Response

Response is a base class for encapsulating an HTTP response from the HouseCanary API.

Properties:

  • endpoint_name - Gets the endpoint name of the original request

  • response - Gets the underlying response object. ###### Methods:

  • json() - Gets the body of the response from the API as json.

  • has_object_error() - Returns true if any requested objects had a business logic error, otherwise returns false.

  • get_object_errors() - Gets a list of business error message strings for each of the requested objects that had a business error. If there was no error, returns an empty list.

  • objects() - Overridden in subclasses.

PropertyResponse

A subclass of Response, this is returned for all property endpoints except for value_report.

Methods:

  • objects() - Gets a list of Property objects for the requested properties, each containing the object’s returned json data from the API.

  • properties() - An alias for the objects() method.

HouseCanaryObject

Base class for various types of objects returned from the HouseCanary API. Currently, only the Property subclass is implemented.

Properties:

  • component_results - a list of ComponentResult objects that contain data and error information for each endpoint requested for this HouseCanaryObject.

Methods:

  • has_error() - Returns a boolean of whether there was a business logic error fetching data for any components for this object.

  • get_errors() - If there was a business error fetching data for any components for this object, returns the error messages.

Property

A subclass of HouseCanaryObject, the Property represents a single address and it’s returned data.

Properties:

  • address

  • zipcode

  • zipcode_plus4

  • address_full

  • city

  • country_fips

  • lat

  • lng

  • state

  • unit

  • meta

Example:

result = client.property.value(("123 Main St", "01234", "meta information"))
p = result.properties()[0]
print p.address
# "123 Main St"
print p.zipcode
# "01234"
print p.meta
# "meta information"
value_result = p.component_results[0]
print value_result.component_name
# 'property/value'
print value_result.api_code
# 0
print value_result.api_code_description
# 'ok'
print value_result.json_data
# {u'value': {u'price_upr': 1575138.0, u'price_lwr': 1326125.0, u'price_mean': 1450632.0, u'fsd': 0.086}}
print p.has_error()
# False
print p.get_errors()
# []

ValueReportResponse

A subclass of Response, this is the object returned for the value_report endpoint when “json” format_type is used. It simply returns the JSON data of the Value Report.

Example:

result = client.property.value_report("123 Main St", "01234")
print result.json()

License

This API Client Library is made available under the MIT License:

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 HouseCanary, Inc

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For the avoidance of doubt, the above license does not apply to HouseCanary’s proprietary software code or APIs, or to any data, analytics or reports made available by HouseCanary from time to time, all of which may be licensed pursuant to a separate written agreement

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