README.md

PyLooker

A basic Python interface to Looker API.

Installation

You can use pip to install PyLooker.

pip install pylooker

If you prefer, you can clone it and run the setup.py file. Use the following commands to install PyLooker from Github:

git clone https://github.com/bufferapp/pylooker
cd pylooker
python setup.py install

Basic Usage

To use PyLooker you'll need to get the client_id and client_secret pair for your Looker user. You can request these to your Looker admin as stated in the Looker documentation.

from pylooker.client import LookerClient

api_endpoint = 'https://looker.company.com:19999/api/3.0/'
client_id = 'your-client-id'
client_secret = 'your-client-secret'
lc = LookerClient(api_endpoint, client_id, client_secret)

look_data = lc.run_look(1234)
query_data = lc.run_query('5A0lg9e7U7SNN8fquk0JKz')

The JSON results can be converted to a Pandas Dataframe:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(query_data)