m-deck / looker3_api

Python Library for Looker 3.0 API -- built by Avant

Python Library for Looker 3.0 API

Setup

You can install this package by cloning/downloading this directory and running:

$ python setup.py install

from a terminal within the directory

Getting Looker API keys

Within your Looker, navigate to admin, manager users, then either create a new API user or get the token and secret associated with an existing API user.

Using the Looker Python Library

from looker_client import LookerClient

# Instantiate and Login to Looker

lc = LookerClient('looker_token', 'looker_secret', 'https://avant.looker.com', limit=100, port=19999)

# Get a DataFrame from a long share url

url = 'long_share_url_from_explore'

df = lc.get_df_from_long_share_url(url)

# Get a DataFrame from a short url

# NOTE: limit DOES NOT WORK FOR SHORT URLS. Set the row limit within looker before accessing the share link

url = 'short_url_from_share_menu'

df = lc.get_df_from_slug(short_url)