MapRoulette - A Python Client for the MapRoulette API

https://maproulette-python-client.readthedocs.io

This client makes it easy for users to communicate with the MapRoulette API from within their Python environment. In the example below, we are able to access a MapRoulette project in just four lines of code:

   >>> import maproulette
   >>> config = maproulette.Configuration()
   >>> api = maproulette.Project(config)
   >>> api.get_project_by_id(4719)
   {'data': {'id': 4719, 'owner': 4785024, 'name': 'health_facilities_in_india',...}

The full documentation for this package can be found here.

Getting Started

Install the package (or add it to your requirements.txt file):

pip install maproulette

Import the package:

import maproulette

import json for nice json printing:

import json

From there, create a configuration object. Depending on your use case, you may need to pass your API key. Specify that when you create your configuration. For example:

config = maproulette.Configuration(api_key='{YOUR_API_KEY}')

Your API key is listed at the bottom of https://maproulette.org/user/profile page.

Once you have your configuration object we can create an API object using one of several modules depending on the functionality that the user is looking for. For example, creating a Project object allows the user to interact with all of the project-related functionality in the MapRoulette package.

api = maproulette.Project(config)

Now we have access to the MapRoulette Project API methods. In the example below, I want to find a project by name using a search string:

# We want to fetch a project with name 'Health Facilities in India'
my_project_name = 'Health Facilities in India'

# Pretty-print the API response
print(json.dumps(api.find_project(my_project_name), indent=4, sort_keys=True))

This returns a nicely printed JSON object representing the project named 'Health Facilities in India':

{
    "data": [
        {
            "created": "2019-08-26T06:34:28.655Z",
            "deleted": false,
            "description": "Adding the Hospitals ",
            "displayName": "Health Facilities in India",
            "enabled": true,
            "featured": false,
            "groups": [
                {
                    "created": "2020-03-25T16:23:04.360Z",
                    "groupType": 1,
                    "id": 9273,
                    "modified": "2020-03-25T16:23:04.360Z",
                    "name": "4719_Admin",
                    "projectId": 4719
                },
                {
                    "created": "2020-03-25T16:23:04.360Z",
                    "groupType": 2,
                    "id": 9274,
                    "modified": "2020-03-25T16:23:04.360Z",
                    "name": "4719_Write",
                    "projectId": 4719
                },
                {
                    "created": "2020-03-25T16:23:04.360Z",
                    "groupType": 3,
                    "id": 9275,
                    "modified": "2020-03-25T16:23:04.360Z",
                    "name": "4719_Read",
                    "projectId": 4719
                }
            ],
            "id": 4719,
            "isVirtual": false,
            "modified": "2020-01-30T11:05:44.466Z",
            "name": "health_facilities_in_india",
            "owner": 4785024
        }
    ],
    "status": 200
}

Development

Contributing

Open an issue! Thanks for contributing!

Testing

This package uses Tox to perform testing. In order to run Tox, execute the tox command from the root directory.

Building the Documentation

The documentation for this package is built with Sphinx. In order to build the documentation for this package:

$ cd docs

and then:

$ make html

That command will generate the HTML documentation files for the project. We've hosted these docs at Read the Docs.