Simple Knack Wrapper

This is a simple wrapper made for https://www.knack.com. It supports paginated queries and provides enough functionality to browse an object's data from python.

Dependencies: 'inflection'

It has only been tested with root access keys but maybe it works with page access keys as well. Let me know!

A sample use case is a simple backup script that pulls in all the records from a list of object ids and outputs them to separate csv files per object id:

import knack
import csv
import logging
import console

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

application_id = 'your-application-id'
rest_api_key = 'your-rest-api-key'
objects_to_backup = [] # enter the object ids you want to download

knack.Base.setup(application_id, rest_api_key)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  for id in objects_to_backup:
    filename = 'object_{object_id}.csv'.format(object_id=id)
    
    with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as csvfile:
      knack_object = knack.KnackObject(id)
      fieldnames = knack_object.fields.keys()
      writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=fieldnames)
      writer.writeheader()
      
      for record in knack_object.records:
        writer.writerow(record.attributes())
        
    logging.info('Done writing {filename}'.format(filename=filename))
    console.quicklook(filename)
    
  logging.info('Script finished successfully.')

Feel free to use/modify/comment.