BasecamPY3

An easy-to-use Python interface to
the Basecamp 3 API.

BasecamPY3 will drop Python 2.7 and 3.5 support in the 1.0.0 release.

Features

• Easy, AWS CLI-like configuration and installation
• Object-oriented API
• Handles rate-limiting, caching, and authentication for you!

Install

pip install basecampy3
bc3 configure

Follow the prompts to obtain an access and refresh token which is then saved
to ~/.config/basecamp.conf, allowing you to call Basecamp3() without any
parameters. You will need to make your own
Basecamp 3 app integration
first.

Storing in environment variables

Once you have the credentials you can store them in environment variables:

• BASECAMP_CLIENT_ID
• BASECAMP_CLIENT_SECRET
• BASECAMP_REDIRECT_URL
• BASECAMP_ACCESS_TOKEN
• BASECAMP_REFRESH_TOKEN

This will allow for easier deploys using CI, initializing with:

from basecampy3 import Basecamp3
bc3 = Basecamp3.from_environment()

Usage

Basic Example

from basecampy3 import Basecamp3
bc3 = Basecamp3()
for project in bc3.projects.list():
    print(project.name)
new_project = bc3.projects.create("My New Project",
                                  description="The best project ever made.")
new_project.campfire.post_message("Hello World!")
new_message = new_project.message_board.post_message("Check this out",
                                                     content="This is a new message thread start.")
new_message.archive()
todolist = new_project.todoset.create("Things to be done")
todolist.create("Get Milk")
todolist.create("Get Eggs")
go_to_bed = todolist.create("Go to bed.")
go_to_bed.check()  # this is marked as done

Not all functionality of the API is available yet. For anything missing, you
can use the requests Session object yourself directly and
consult the Basecamp 3 API docs. The benefit of using this Session object
is you will benefit from the authentication, rate-limiting, and caching
features.

The full API is implemented in the basecampy3.urls package, however. The
Basecamp3 object now has a urls object that implements a 1:1 mapping
with the Basecamp 3 API. Using this urls object, you can create the URL
you need to get the information you want, and then call .request() on it to
receive a Response object, from which you can use .json() to get the
data you are looking for.

Direct Session Example

from basecampy3 import Basecamp3
import json
bc3 = Basecamp3()
# replace these with actual IDs of the Basecamp objects you wish to get
recording_id = 123456789
project_id = 1234567
# Reference:
# https://github.com/basecamp/bc3-api/blob/master/sections/comments.md#get-comments
url = bc3.urls.comments.list_by_recording(project=project_id,
                                          recording=recording_id)
response = url.request(bc3.session)
if not response.ok:
    print("Something went wrong. %s: %s" % (
    response.status_code, response.text))
    exit(1)
data = response.json()
pretty_print = json.dumps(data, indent=4)
print(pretty_print)

CLI Example

COMING SOON!
Command Line interface for doing stuff with Basecamp.
(not working yet)

  $ bc3 copy-access 12341234 87658765  # give user 87658765 access to all the projects that 12341234 does

Todo

• The rest of the Basecamp 3 API
• Command line tool (beyond just the “configure” command)
• Better testing coverage