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PyiCloud is a module which allows pythonistas to interact with iCloud webservices. It's powered by the fantastic [requests](https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests) HTTP library. | ||
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At its core, PyiCloud connects to iCloud using your username and password, then performs calendar and iPhone queries against their API. | ||
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Authentication | ||
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Authentication is as simple as passing your username and password to the `PyiCloudService` class: | ||
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>>> from pyicloud import PyiCloudService | ||
>>> api = PyiCloudService('[email protected]', 'password') | ||
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In the event that the username/password combination is invalid, a `PyiCloudFailedLoginException` exception is thrown. | ||
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Devices | ||
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You can list which devices associated with your account by using the `devices` property: | ||
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>>> api.devices | ||
{ | ||
u'i9vbKRGIcLYqJnXMd1b257kUWnoyEBcEh6yM+IfmiMLh7BmOpALS+w==': <AppleDevice(iPhone 4S: Johnny Appleseed's iPhone)>, | ||
u'reGYDh9XwqNWTGIhNBuEwP1ds0F/Lg5t/fxNbI4V939hhXawByErk+HYVNSUzmWV': <AppleDevice(MacBook Air 11": Johnny Appleseed's MacBook Air)> | ||
} | ||
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and you can access individual devices by either their index, or their ID: | ||
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>>> api.devices[0] | ||
<AppleDevice(iPhone 4S: Johnny Appleseed's iPhone)> | ||
>>> api.devices['i9vbKRGIcLYqJnXMd1b257kUWnoyEBcEh6yM+IfmiMLh7BmOpALS+w=='] | ||
<AppleDevice(iPhone 4S: Johnny Appleseed's iPhone)> | ||
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or, as a shorthand if you have only one associated apple device, you can simply use the `iphone` property to access the first device associated with your account: | ||
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>>> api.iphone | ||
<AppleDevice(iPhone 4S: Johnny Appleseed's iPhone)> | ||
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Note: the first device associated with your account may not necessarily be your iPhone. | ||
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Find My iPhone | ||
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Once you have successfully authenticated, you can start querying your data! | ||
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Location | ||
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Returns the device's last known location. The Find My iPhone app must have been installed and initialized. | ||
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>>> api.iphone.location() | ||
{u'timeStamp': 1357753796553, u'locationFinished': True, u'longitude': -0.14189, u'positionType': u'GPS', u'locationType': None, u'latitude': 51.501364, u'isOld': False, u'horizontalAccuracy': 5.0} | ||
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Status | ||
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The Find My iPhone response is quite bloated, so for simplicity's sake this method will return a subset of the properties. | ||
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>>> api.iphone.status() | ||
{'deviceDisplayName': u'iPhone 5', 'deviceStatus': u'200', 'batteryLevel': 0.6166913, 'name': u"Peter's iPhone"} | ||
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If you wish to request further properties, you may do so by passing in a list of property names. | ||
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Play Sound | ||
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Sends a request to the device to play a sound, if you wish pass a custom message you can do so by changing the subject arg. | ||
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>>> api.iphone.play_sound() | ||
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A few moments later, the device will play a ringtone, display the default notification ("Find My iPhone Alert") and a confirmation email will be sent to you. | ||
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Lost Mode | ||
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Lost mode is slightly different to the "Play Sound" functionality in that it allows the person who picks up the phone to call a specific phone number *without having to enter the passcode*. Just like "Play Sound" you may pass a custom message which the device will display, if it's not overridden the custom message of "This iPhone has been lost. Please call me." is used. | ||
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>>> phone_number = '555-373-383' | ||
>>> message = 'Thief! Return my phone immediately.' | ||
>>> api.iphone.lost_device(phone_number, message) | ||
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Calendar | ||
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The calendar webservice currently only supports fetching events. | ||
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Events | ||
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Returns this month's events: | ||
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>>> api.calendar.events() | ||
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Or, between a specific date range: | ||
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>>> from_dt = datetime(2012, 1, 1) | ||
>>> to_dt = datetime(2012, 1, 31) | ||
>>> api.calendar.events(from_dt, to_dt) | ||
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Alternatively, you may fetch a single event's details, like so: | ||
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>>> api.calendar.get_event_detail('CALENDAR', 'EVENT_ID') | ||
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File Storage (Ubiquity) | ||
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You can access documents stored in your iCloud account by using the `files` property's `dir` method: | ||
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>>> api.files.dir() | ||
[u'.do-not-delete', | ||
u'.localized', | ||
u'com~apple~Notes', | ||
u'com~apple~Preview', | ||
u'com~apple~mail', | ||
u'com~apple~shoebox', | ||
u'com~apple~system~spotlight' | ||
] | ||
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You can access children and their children's children using the filename as an index: | ||
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>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes'] | ||
<Folder: u'com~apple~Notes'> | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes'].type | ||
u'folder' | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes'].dir() | ||
[u'Documents'] | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents'].dir() | ||
[u'Some Document'] | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['Some Document'].name | ||
u'Some Document' | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['Some Document'].modified | ||
datetime.datetime(2012, 9, 13, 2, 26, 17) | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['Some Document'].size | ||
1308134 | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['Some Document'].type | ||
u'file' | ||
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And when you have a file that you'd like to download, the `open` method will return a response object from which you can read the `content`. | ||
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>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['Some Document'].open().content | ||
'Hello, these are the file contents' | ||
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Note: the object returned from the above `open` method is a [response object](http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/#classes) and the `open` method can accept any parameters you might normally use in a request using [requests](https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests). | ||
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For example, if you know that the file you're opening has JSON content: | ||
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>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['information.json'].open().json() | ||
{'How much we love you': 'lots'} | ||
>>> api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['information.json'].open().json()['How much we love you'] | ||
'lots' | ||
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Or, if you're downloading a particularly large file, you may want to use the `stream` keyword argument, and read directly from the raw response object: | ||
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>>> download = api.files['com~apple~Notes']['Documents']['big_file.zip'].open(stream=True) | ||
>>> with open('downloaded_file.zip', 'wb') as opened_file: | ||
opened_file.write(download.raw.read()) |