UPDATE: sadly, the ZEIT team have stopped offering the API, so this will not work anymore :(

Zeit Online API in Python

A simple Python Wrapper for the Zeit Online Content API, written in python. Not official from Zeit Online !

For an overview of the API, view the original Docs or try them out in their explorer. my Post with more infos.

For all of this to work, you need an API-Key from their developer team, get one by writing a mail to api@zeit.de. Be nice and state your intention.

Setup

you can install the package with pip from PYPI, the python package Index.

pip install zeit-online

To import the package into your file just run this simple command

import zeit

To get started with interacting with the API, you need to initiate a API-Instance and set your API-Key you got from the developers

api = API()
api.set_token("API-KEY") #put your key in here

Examples

Now you have many different methods at your hands to interact with the API. Look at the full documentation to see everything.

A simple method is the get_status method to check the status of your connection

api.get_status() #returns "everything ok" if it works

I would say the most important Method is the search_for method. With it, you can search all endpoints in the API for a specified string.

api.search_for("John Kennedy") # search the default content endpoint for "John Kennedy", returns a search class

For more documentation, look at the docs and the example Notebook