RestDF

RestDF is a command line utility for running any pandas.DataFrame compatible datasets as a Rest API, with built-in SwaggerUI support.

• Source code: https://github.com/Mukhopadhyay/restdf
• License: MIT
• Documentation: http://restdf.rtfd.io/

Installing RestDF

RestDF can be installed from PyPi using

pip install restdf

Getting Started with RestDF

The goal of this project was to make the API creation process from a dataset simpler. So, the execution is kept as minimal as possible. For example,
RestDF can be run like any other python module using the -m flag, additional flags can be used to configure the server. Following will start a server with this dataset on localhost:5000/docs

restdf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cs109/2014_data/master/diamonds.csv

or,

python -m restdf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cs109/2014_data/master/diamonds.csv

For a more detailed description of all available flags and option please refer to this documentation on Command Line Arguments.

Endpoints

The responses from RestDF can be categorized into following three broad categories:

• Docs
• Metadata
• Data

Please refer to this page for more detailed documentation on the available endpoints.

Testing:

RestDF tests are written using pytest. For more detailed documentation on testing this module please go to the following page: Testing RestDF

Documentations

Read the documentation online at: http://restdf.rtfd.io/ Or build it locally from the docs/ directory using

Linux:

make html

Windows

make.bat html