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InfluxDB client

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InfluxDB-Python is a client for interacting with InfluxDB.

Development of this library is maintained by:

Github ID

URL

@aviau

(https://github.com/aviau)

@xginn8

(https://github.com/xginn8)

@sebito91

(https://github.com/sebito91)

InfluxDB is an open-source distributed time series database, find more about InfluxDB at https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest

InfluxDB pre v1.1.0 users

This module is tested with InfluxDB versions: v1.2.4, v1.3.9, v1.4.3, v1.5.4, v1.6.4, and 1.7.4.

Those users still on InfluxDB v0.8.x users may still use the legacy client by importing from influxdb.influxdb08 import InfluxDBClient.

Installation

Install, upgrade and uninstall influxdb-python with these commands:

$ pip install influxdb
$ pip install --upgrade influxdb
$ pip uninstall influxdb

On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install it with this command:

$ sudo apt-get install python-influxdb

Dependencies

The influxdb-python distribution is supported and tested on Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, PyPy and PyPy3.

Note: Python <3.5 are currently untested. See .travis.yml.

Main dependency is:

Additional dependencies are:

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://influxdb-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

You will need Sphinx installed to generate the documentation.

The documentation can be generated by running:

$ tox -e docs

Generated documentation can be found in the docs/build/html/ directory.

Examples

Here’s a basic example (for more see the examples directory):

$ python

>>> from influxdb import InfluxDBClient

>>> json_body = [
    {
        "measurement": "cpu_load_short",
        "tags": {
            "host": "server01",
            "region": "us-west"
        },
        "time": "2009-11-10T23:00:00Z",
        "fields": {
            "value": 0.64
        }
    }
]

>>> client = InfluxDBClient('localhost', 8086, 'root', 'root', 'example')

>>> client.create_database('example')

>>> client.write_points(json_body)

>>> result = client.query('select value from cpu_load_short;')

>>> print("Result: {0}".format(result))

Testing

Make sure you have tox by running the following:

$ pip install tox

To test influxdb-python with multiple version of Python, you can use Tox:

$ tox

Support

For issues with, questions about, or feedback for InfluxDB, please look into our community page: http://influxdb.com/community/.

We are also lurking on the following:

  • #influxdb on irc.freenode.net

  • #influxdb on gophers.slack.com

Development

All development is done on Github. Use Issues to report problems or submit contributions.

Please note that we WILL get to your questions/issues/concerns as quickly as possible. We maintain many software repositories and sometimes things may get pushed to the backburner. Please don’t take offense, we will do our best to reply as soon as possible!

Source code

The source code is currently available on Github: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-python

TODO

The TODO/Roadmap can be found in Github bug tracker: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-python/issues

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