InfluxDB-Python is a client for interacting with InfluxDB.

The 1.0.0 version of this library now supports InfluxDB 0.9. Please note that InfluxDB 0.9 is still pre-release software. For stability, you should use the influxdb.influxdb08 module in conjunction with InfluxDB 0.8.

Influxdb >=0.9.0 brings many breaking changes to the API. InfluxDB 0.8.X users may use the legacy client by using from influxdb.influxdb08 import InfluxDBClient instead.

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

The InfluxDB-Python distribution is supported and tested on Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, PyPy and PyPy3.

Main dependency is:

• Requests: HTTP library for human beings (http://docs.python-requests.org/)

Additional dependencies are:

• pandas: for writing from and reading to DataFrames (http://pandas.pydata.org/)
• Sphinx: Tool to create and manage the documentation (http://sphinx-doc.org/)
• Nose: to auto-discover tests (http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
• Mock: to mock tests (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock)

InfluxDB-Python documentation is available at http://influxdb-python.readthedocs.org

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.

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

$ python

>>> from influxdb import InfluxDBClient

>>> json_body = [
    {
        "name": "cpu_load_short",
        "tags": {
            "host": "server01",
            "region": "us-west"
        },
        "timestamp": "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))

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

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

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

The TODO/Roadmap can be found in Github bug tracker: influxdata#109

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