A library for the Freshdesk helpdesk system for Python 2.7 and 3.
There is support for a limited subset of features, using either Freshdesk API v1 or v2.
After the deprication of Freshdesk V1 API, library uses V2 API only.
Support for the v2 API includes the following features:
The easiest way to install is from PyPi inside a virtualenv:
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Create the virtualenv (Python 3!) and activate it:
$ virtualenv -p python3 cool_app $ cd cool_app && source bin/activate -
Install from PyPi:
$ pip install python-freshdesk -
Optionally, run the test suite:
$ pip install nose $ nosetests
Please note the domain and API key are not real and the example will not work without changing these.
>>> from freshdesk.api import API
>>> a = API('company.freshdesk.com', 'q8dnkjaS554Aol21dmnas9d92')To find your API key, follow Freshdesk's step-by-step solution article How to find your API key.
By default, API v2 is used after the deprication of Freshdesk V1 API
>>> a = API('company.freshdesk.com', 'q8dnkjaS554Aol21dmnas9d92', version=2)The API class provides access to all the methods exposed by the Freshdesk API.
The Ticket API is accessed by using the methods assigned to the a.tickets
instance. Tickets are loaded as instances of the freshdesk.v2.models.Ticket
class, and can be iterated over:
>>> a.tickets.list_tickets()
[<Ticket 'New ticket'>, <Ticket 'Some tests should be created'>, <Ticket 'Library needs to be uploaded to PyPi'>]
>>> a.tickets.list_deleted_tickets()
[<Ticket 'This is a sample ticket'>]To see which attributes were loaded for a ticket:
>>> ticket = a.tickets.get_ticket(4)
>>> repr(ticket)
"<Ticket 'I keep typing Freskdesk instead of Freshdesk!>"
>>> ticket._keys
set([u'status', u'source_name', u'ticket_type', u'updated_at', ...])Attributes are automatically converted to native Python objects where appropriate:
>>> a.tickets.list_tickets()[0].created_at
datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 5, 14, 7, 44)Or converted from indexes to their descriptions:
>>> ticket.priority
'medium'
>>> ticket.status
'closed'
>>> ticket.source
'phone'Creating a ticket in Freshdesk can be done with the create_ticket method.
For example, we can create a new ticket like this:
ticket = a.tickets.create_ticket('This is a sample ticket',
email='example@example.com',
description='This is the description of the ticket',
tags=['example'])To Create a ticket with attachments, pass a list of fully quilified file paths with key name 'attachments'
ticket = a.tickets.create_ticket('This is a sample ticket',
email='example@example.com',
description='This is the description of the ticket',
tags=['example'],
attachments=[
'/path/to/file1',
'/path/to/file2']
)The only positional argument is the subject, which is always required.
All other values are optional named arguments, which you can find in the Freshdesk API documentation for creating a ticket.
While all but subject are optional, you will need to specify at least one of:
requester_id, email, facebook_id, phone or twitter_id as the
requester of the ticket, or the request will fail.
You can get the list of tickets by using
ticket = a.tickets.list_tickets(filter_name=None, page=1, per_page=10)By defauly new_and_my_open filter is used. If you want to list all the tickets without any filter, pass filter_name=None.
Pagination is supported. If page argument is not passed, all pages are fetched, else specified page is returned.
Updating a ticket is similar to creating a ticket. The only differences are that the ticket ID becomes the first positional argument, and subject becomes an optional named argument.
In this example, we update the subject and set the priority of the ticket as urgent.
ticket = a.tickets.update_ticket(4,
subject='This is an urgent ticket',
priority=4)The full list of named arguments you can pass can be found in the Freshdesk API documentation for updating a ticket.
To delete a ticket, just pass the ticket ID value to the delete_ticket method:
a.tickets.delete_ticket(4)To view ticket fields for your freshdesk, use the list_ticket_fields method, from
the ticket_fields module:
>>> a.ticket_fields.list_ticket_fields(type='default_requester')
[<TicketFields Requester Email of Requester >, <TicketFields Type Type of Ticket >]To view comments on a ticket (note or reply), use the list_comments method, from
the comments module, and pass it the ticket number:
>>> a.comments.list_comments(4)
[<Comment for <Ticket 'Some tests should be created'>>]
>>> ticket.comments[0]
'We could use Travis CI'The original comment (called "description" in Freshdesk) is available on the Ticket instance:
>>> ticket.description
'nose is a good suite'If you want to add a comment to an existing ticket, you can do it via a note or a reply.
The differences between notes and replies are that notes can be private (only visible to the agents, default). Replies are intended to be comments that are sent to the user (e.g. as an email).
To create a note:
>>> comment = a.comments.create_note(4,
'This is a public note',
private=False)
'<Comment for Ticket #4>'To create a reply:
>>> a.comments.create_reply(4, 'This is the body of a reply')
'<Comment for Ticket #4>'The documentaion for creating a reply and creating a note will provide details of the fields available, which you can pass as named arguments.
In both methods, the ticket ID and body must be given as positional arguments.
Freshdesk mixes up the naming of contacts and users, depending on whether they are an agent or not.
python-freshdesk simply calls them all contacts and are represented as Contact instances:
>>> repr(a.contacts.get_contact(1234))
"<Contact 'Rachel'>"Get the list of contacts using:
>>> repr(a.contacts.list_contacts(page=1, per_page=10))
["<Contact 'Rachel'>"]Pagination is supported. If page option is not specified, then all the pages are fetched, else specified page is returned.
Contact can be filtered using name or email by passing the filter as email=abc@xyz.com or mobile=123792182138 or state=deleted
Other supported methods are create_contact, update_contact, soft_delete_contact, permanently_delete_contact, restore_contact
To convert a contact to an agent, use:
>>> repr(a.contacts.make_agent(1))
["<Agent 'Rachel'>"]To get an agent, use:
>>> repr(a.agents.get_agent(1234))
"<Agent 'Rachel'>"Get the list of agent using:
>>> repr(a.agents.list_agents(page=1, per_page=10))
["<Agent 'Rachel'>"]Pagination is supported. If page option is not specified, then all the pages are fetched, else specified page is returned.
Agent can be filtered using name or email by passing the filter as email=abc@xyz.com or mobile=123792182138
Other supported methods are update_agent, delete_agent
To get the list of groups, use:
>>> repr(a.groups.list_groups(page=1, per_page=10))
["<Group 'Service Managers'>"]Pagination is supported. If page option is not specified, then all the pages are fetched, else specified page is returned.
To get a group, use:
>>> repr(a.groups.get_group(1))
["<Group 'Service Managers'>"]