This is a Python library to use with ActivityPub. ActivityPub is an API for an open, distributed, social network.
You can install the development version of activitypub with:
pip install git+git://github.com/dsblank/activitypub
or the last packaged version with:
pip install activitypub
To use with redis:
pip install redis redis_collections
OR to use with mongodb:
pip install pymongo
OR to use with SQLAlchemy:
pip install sqlalchemy
This module is designed to be a generally useful ActivityPub library in Python. It targets three different levels of use:
- ActivityPub object API
- ActivityPub database API
- Webserver API
These levels can be used independently, or together. They can best be used together using a Manager:
>>> from activitypub.manager import Manager
>>> from activitypub.database import ListDatabase
>>> db = ListDatabase()
>>> manager = Manager(database=db)
>>> p = manager.Person(id="alyssa")
>>> p.to_dict()
{'@context': 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
'endpoints': {},
'followers': 'https://example.com/alyssa/followers',
'following': 'https://example.com/alyssa/following',
'id': 'https://example.com/alyssa',
'inbox': 'https://example.com/alyssa/inbox',
'liked': 'https://example.com/alyssa/liked',
'likes': 'https://example.com/alyssa/likes',
'outbox': 'https://example.com/alyssa/outbox',
'type': 'Person',
'url': 'https://example.com/alyssa'}
>>> db.actors.insert_one(p.to_dict())
>>> db.actors.find_one({"id": 'https://example.com/alyssa'})
{'@context': 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
'endpoints': {},
'followers': 'https://example.com/alyssa/followers',
'following': 'https://example.com/alyssa/following',
'id': 'https://example.com/alyssa',
'inbox': 'https://example.com/alyssa/inbox',
'liked': 'https://example.com/alyssa/liked',
'likes': 'https://example.com/alyssa/likes',
'outbox': 'https://example.com/alyssa/outbox',
'type': 'Person',
'url': 'https://example.com/alyssa',
'_id': ObjectId('5b579aee1342a3230c18fbf7')}activitypub supports the following databases:
- MongoDB
- SQL dialects --- any that that sqlalchemy supports, including:
- SQLite (including in-memory)
- Firebird
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- Sybase
- ... and many more!
- An in-memory, JSON-based database for testing
- Redis
The activitypub database API is a subset of the MongoDB.
activitypub is targeting the following web frameworks:
- Flask
- Tornado
Others can be supported. Please ask!
The activitypub webservice API is based on Flask's.
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