A python wrapper for comicvine.com

Using setuptools you can install pycomicvine as follows:

python setup.py install

Dependencies:

• simplejson
• python-dateutil

You can search for resources on comicvine.com.

>>> import pycomicvine
>>> pycomicvine.api_key = "<Your API key>"
>>> pycomicvine.Volume.search("The Walking Dead")
<Volume: The Walking Dead [18166]>

Paramaters are identical to the filters stated in the API Documentation, where resources is omitted. query is mandatory and the first parameter. field_list can be either a list of string or a comma-seperated string.

You can also search mixed resource lists with

>>> pycomicvine.Search("Avengers", field_list=['name','id'])
[<Team: Avengers [3806]>,<Volume: Avengers [7084]>,<Volume: Avengers [33227]>]

Again: all parameters match up with the API Documentation. As you may have guessed Team.search("Teen Titans") is equivalent to Search("Teen Titans", resource="team").

A list of resources of one type can be downloaded using

>>> pycomicvine.Objects(filter="name:Mjolnir")
Objects[<Object: Mjolnir [40971]>,<Object: MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor [56824]>]

If you know the ID of a resource you can download it directly:

>>> pycomicvine.Character(1807, all=True)
<Character: Superman [1807]>

The additional parameter all assures that all fields of the resource are downloaded. Per default only the ids of resources (and fields that might be via field_list) are downloaded. If a field is not downloaded yet it will be downloaded when it is called.

>>> issue = pycomicvine.Issue(194796)
>>> issue
<Issue: [194796]>
>>> issue.name
'Monster, Part Two'
>>> issue.volume
<Volume: Star Wars: Legacy [18575]>
>>> issue
<Issue: Monster, Part Two [194796]>

The additional parameter do_not_download causes, that nothing is downloaded on initialisation, even if you give a field_list. do_not_download is stronger than all

>>> movie = pycomicvine.Movie(108, all=True, field_list=['name'], do_not_download=True)
>>> movie
<Movie: [108]>
>>> movie.name
'Star Trek'
>>> movie
<Movie: Star Trek [108]>

Here is a mapping of which class is representing which resource type of the API:

If you do not like the way we convert the objects, you can always redefine it. pycomicvine gives you the class AttributeDefinition for this:

>>> pycomicvine.Character.gender = pycomicvine.AttributeDefinition('keep')
>>> pycomicvine.Character(20096).gender
2

'keep' is here a keyword to keep the type the JSON gives us. Other possible parameters are the names of our ressource type classes as string and int and datetime.datetime (as there actual types) for conversion into that types. If that is not enough for you, you even can give a function as parameter, that takes a parameter and gives back one return value. You have to define the original type then though. For example:

>>> pycomicvine.Concept.name = pycomicvine.AttributeDefinition(lambda v: "Just another universe" if "universe" in v.lower() else v, start_type=basestring)
>>> pycomicvine.Concept(56089).name
'Just another universe'

You can contribute by submitting issue tickets here on GitHub, including Pull Requests. You can test pycomicvine by calling

python setup.py test

Copyright (c) 2013 Martin Lenders

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