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Ayyoub
Ayyoub

Reputation: 5471

How to deal with API response

I was able to connect to Mind Body api and run a simple command to get all clients data 

from Helper.ClientService import ClientServiceCalls

calls = ClientServiceCalls()
clients = calls.GetAllClients()
print(clients)

the server will respond with these information:

(GetClientsResult){
   Status = "Success"
   ErrorCode = 200
   XMLDetail = "Full"
   ResultCount = 4503
   CurrentPageIndex = 0
   TotalPageCount = 181
   Clients = 
      (ArrayOfClient){
         Client[] = 
            (Client){
               MobileProvider = None
               AppointmentGenderPreference = "None"
               Gender = "Female"
               IsCompany = False
               LiabilityRelease = False
               PromotionalEmailOptIn = True
               CreationDate = 2017-02-23 00:00:00
               Liability = 
                  (Liability){
                     IsReleased = False
                     AgreementDate = None
                     ReleasedBy = None
                  }
               UniqueID = 100015484
               ID = "100015484"
               FirstName = "Sdfoij"
               LastName = "[asodfj"
               EmailOptIn = True
               State = "CA"
               Country = "US"
               BirthDate = None
               FirstAppointmentDate = 2017-03-03 00:00:00
               HomeLocation = 
                  (Location){
                     SiteID = -99
                     BusinessDescription = ""The MINDBODY Health Club Demo is awesome." - Anonymous (but probably someone cool and smart)"
                     AdditionalImageURLs = ""
                     FacilitySquareFeet = None
                     TreatmentRooms = None
                     HasClasses = True
                     PhoneExtension = None
                     ID = 1
                     Name = "Clubville"
                  }
               PhotoURL = "https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/studios/DemoAPISandboxRestore/clients/100015484_large.jpg?v=98"
               IsProspect = False
               Status = "Active"
               ContactMethod = 1
            }.... **and continue printing other client informations**

     }
 }

now The issue is i want to extract these info from it, 

Client Email, Client Name, Client Phone Number, Client Status (active or inactive), Client Birthday, Client Address, Most Recent Visit Date, Most Recent Visit Description, Start Date, Custom Field(s)

But i don't know what Library I can use to parse through this output, I am thinking about Beautiful Soup but I am not really sure,

I am really newbie to working with apis, so if anyone could give me an idea about how to do this it would be really great.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 342

Answers (1)

aquil.abdullah
aquil.abdullah

Reputation: 3157

OK, I did a search on mindbody WSDL in the googs and got back the following link: https://api.mindbodyonline.com/0_5/SiteService.asmx?wsdl. From looking at the code in the API examples it looks like they are definitely using SOAP. My recommendation is that you try the following:

from suds.client import Client
from Helper.ClientService import ClientServiceMethods
calls = ClientServiceMethods()
clients = calls.GetAllClients()
client_dict = Client.dict(clients)

Or take a look at this link for taking a response and turning it into a dict.

Upvotes: 3

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