xapitodict is a library to extract the a xapi db dump into a python dictionary for ease of analysis and debugging investigation.

If you are more comfortable using other tools (e.g. jq) it also provides an executable, xapi-to-json to load the xml database and dump it into as json into a file or the standard output. For additional information run xapi-to-json --help.

If you import xapitodict in your python (or jupyter) session, you have access to the following function:

xapi_to_dict: xml_database_path -> (xapi_db_dict, xapi_db_version_dict)

This takes the path of a xml xapi db dump and returns the database dictionary and the version metadata dictionary.

The library is compatible with python 2.7 and python 3.

The packages sexpdata and xmltodict are required. They are both available on pypi and installable via pip or easy_install.

Run either of:

• python setup.py install (or python setup.py install --user if you prefer a local install)

• pip install . (or pip install --user . if you prefer a local install)

Make sure that the binary install path is in your env path.