pytaboola

Python client for Taboola API (https://github.com/taboola/Backstage-API). Before any use of this client, you must have gotten your API client ID and client secret from your Taboola account manager.

Client ID is required for any usage.

Authentication and authorization

This client supports both access_token/refresh_token and client_id/client_secret OAuth2 authorization methods.

The access_token/refresh_token method is the recommended one, but following examples will use the other one as it is easier to implement.

Simple Connection

Example of a simple connection using client_id/client_secret.

CLIENT_ID = 'XXXXX'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YYYYY'

from pytaboola import TaboolaClient
client = TaboolaClient(CLIENT_ID, client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET)
client.token_details
> {'account_id': 'my-taboola-account',
   'expires_in': 43189,
   'full_name': 'User Name',
   'username': '[email protected]'}

Services

Here is a quick description of the services provided by this client.

Account listing

A service with only one method, allowing to list advertiser accounts linked to your main Taboola account. This service is read-only.

CLIENT_ID = 'XXXXX'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YYYYY'

from pytaboola import TaboolaClient
from pytaboola.services import AccountService
client = TaboolaClient(CLIENT_ID, client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET)
service = AccountService(client)
service.list()
>>> {'results': [{'account_id': 'my-first-acount',
     'campaign_types': ['PAID'],
     'id': 1111111,
    'name': 'My First Taboola Account',
   'partner_types': ['ADVERTISER'],
   'type': 'PARTNER'},
   {'account_id': 'my-other-account',
   'campaign_types': ['PAID'],
   'id': 2222222,
   'name': 'My Other Taboola Account',
   'partner_types': ['ADVERTISER'],
   'type': 'PARTNER'}]}

Campaign CRUD

Simple CRUD service implementing listing, access, creation, edition. All requests are scoped by account. So, it is impossible to list campaigns cross accounts.

Service is instanciated as follow.

CLIENT_ID = 'XXXXX'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YYYYY'

from pytaboola import TaboolaClient
from pytaboola.services import CampaignService
client = TaboolaClient(CLIENT_ID, client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET)
service = CampaignService(client, 'my-account-id')

Methods

List all campaigns for an account :

service.list()

Get a campaign :

service.get('my-campaign-id')

Update a campaign :

service.update('my-campaign-id', **attrs)

Please note that update is partial. To delete a field, you will have to set it at None explicitly (if this attribute is nullable obviously).

Create a campaign :

service.create(**attrs)

In these last examples, attrs is a dict containing attributes of the campaign. For more information on campaign attributes, please see the Backstage API documentation at https://github.com/taboola/Backstage-API/blob/master/Backstage%20API%20-%20Campaigns.pdf

Campaign Item CRUD

As with Campaign CRUD service, this is a simple CRUD service implementing listing, access, creation, edition. All requests are scoped by campaign.

CLIENT_ID = 'XXXXX'
CLIENT_SECRET = 'YYYYY'

from pytaboola import TaboolaClient
client = TaboolaClient(CLIENT_ID, client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET)
service = CampaignItemService(client, 'my-account-id', 'my-campaign-id')
service.list()

Methods

Basic CRUD methods have the same signature as the ones of the campaign service.

List all RSS Children for this campaign :

service.children()

Get a child item by its ID :

service.child('my-child-id')

Update a child :

service.child('my-child-id', **attrs)

For more information on campaign item attributes and what RSS Children are, please see the Backstage API documentation at https://github.com/taboola/Backstage-API/blob/master/Backstage%20API%20-%20Campaign%20Items.pdf

Reports

All report services have only a fetch method, with the following signature :

def fetch(self, dimension, start_date, end_date, **filters)

where dimension is the aggregation view of the report, start_date and end_date delimitate the period to fetch the report on, and filters are ways to narrow down your report data.

For more information, please refer to the Backstage API documentation : https://github.com/taboola/Backstage-API/blob/master/Backstage%20API%20-%20Reports.pdf

Available services are :

• CampaignSummaryReport
• TopCampaignContentReport
• RevenueSummaryReport
• VisitValueReport
• RecirculationSummaryReport

Todo:

Resource services

Resource services are available in this client, but not all endpoints are available. Also, they are not properly documented.

Testing

There is not much intelligence in this wrapper, but all utility functions (such as response parsing) and authentication / refresh workflow should be tested to avoid regressions.

Data validators

As for now, all data validation is delegated to the Taboola API. It may be useful to had a small bit of data type checking before any call.

Authentication

user/password authentication method is not implemented. It should be useless in any production environment, but may be used as a fast POC/testing authentication system.