Papilotte is a flexible and extensible server which implements the IPIF API.
The server is currently being developed as a tool for testing the API. Once the IPIF API is stable, Papilotte can be used as a stand-alone server with integrated database or as a frontend or proxy to existing prosopographic resources to provide them via the IPIF interface.
Attention: Papilotte is in alpha state and will undergo frequent changes.
Papilotte needs Python Version 3.5 or above.
As usually it is recommended to keep Papilotte in it's own virtual environment. To create the environment run
python3 -m venv <venv_dir>
Where <venv_dir> can be any path on your computer. The virtual environment will be created under this path.
On Linux or OSX run
source <venv_path>/bin/activate
On Windows run
<venv_path>\Scripts\activate.bat
Papilotte is not installable via pip yet. At the moment the only way to install it is do clone the repository and then run
python setup.py install (or python setup.py develop)
The recommended way to configure Papilotte is to create a new configuration file, eg. papilotte.yml.
To serve server factoids from your own json file, add these lines to your configuration:
connector: papilotte.connectors.json
json_file: <path_to_your_json_file>
Make sure your virtual environment is active before running Papilotte.
python -m papilotte run --config-file <path to configuration file>
this will start the built in web server. Default port is 5000, but this can
be changed via '--port' or a port: entry in the configuration file.
After the server has startet, you should be able to access the factoids at http://localhost:5000/api/factoids
Attention: The built in http server is not meant to be used in production! To put your Papilotte Server on the web, use a WSGI Server like gunicorn, waitress, uWSGI, or Apache mod_wsgi
Gunicorn can be heavily configured. Please read the documentation at https://gunicorn.org/#docs. Here a minimalistic example:
gunicorn "papilotte:create_app(config_file='<path_to_your_config_file>')"