influxdata/influxdb-python

The v1 client libraries for InfluxDB were typically developed and maintained by community members. For InfluxDB 3.0 users, this library is succeeded by the lightweight v3 client library.

If there are still users of this v1 client library, and they or somebody else are willing to keep them updated with security fixes at a minimum please reach out on the Community Forums or InfluxData Slack.

InfluxDB-Python

InfluxDB-Python is a client for interacting with InfluxDB.

Note: This library is for use with InfluxDB 1.x. For connecting to InfluxDB 2.x instances, please use the the influxdb-client-python client.

Development of this library is maintained by:

InfluxDB is an open-source distributed time series database, find more about InfluxDB at https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/latest

InfluxDB pre v1.1.0 users

This module is tested with InfluxDB versions: v1.2.4, v1.3.9, v1.4.3, v1.5.4, v1.6.4, and 1.7.4.

Those users still on InfluxDB v0.8.x users may still use the legacy client by importing from influxdb.influxdb08 import InfluxDBClient.

Installation

Install, upgrade and uninstall influxdb-python with these commands:

$ pip install influxdb
$ pip install --upgrade influxdb
$ pip uninstall influxdb

On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install it with this command:

$ sudo apt-get install python-influxdb

Dependencies

The influxdb-python distribution is supported and tested on Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, PyPy and PyPy3.

Note: Python <3.5 are currently untested. See .travis.yml.

Main dependency is:

• Requests: HTTP library for human beings (http://docs.python-requests.org/)

Additional dependencies are:

• pandas: for writing from and reading to DataFrames (http://pandas.pydata.org/)
• Sphinx: Tool to create and manage the documentation (http://sphinx-doc.org/)
• Nose: to auto-discover tests (http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
• Mock: to mock tests (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock)

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://influxdb-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

You will need Sphinx installed to generate the documentation.

The documentation can be generated by running:

$ tox -e docs

Generated documentation can be found in the docs/build/html/ directory.

Examples

Here's a basic example (for more see the examples directory):

$ python

>>> from influxdb import InfluxDBClient

>>> json_body = [
    {
        "measurement": "cpu_load_short",
        "tags": {
            "host": "server01",
            "region": "us-west"
        },
        "time": "2009-11-10T23:00:00Z",
        "fields": {
            "value": 0.64
        }
    }
]

>>> client = InfluxDBClient('localhost', 8086, 'root', 'root', 'example')

>>> client.create_database('example')

>>> client.write_points(json_body)

>>> result = client.query('select value from cpu_load_short;')

>>> print("Result: {0}".format(result))

Testing

Make sure you have tox by running the following:

$ pip install tox

To test influxdb-python with multiple version of Python, you can use Tox:

$ tox

Support

For issues with, questions about, or feedback for InfluxDB, please look into our community page: http://influxdb.com/community/.

We are also lurking on the following:

• #influxdb on irc.freenode.net
• #influxdb on gophers.slack.com

Development

All development is done on Github. Use Issues to report problems or submit contributions.

Please note that we WILL get to your questions/issues/concerns as quickly as possible. We maintain many software repositories and sometimes things may get pushed to the backburner. Please don't take offense, we will do our best to reply as soon as possible!

Source code

The source code is currently available on Github: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-python

TODO

The TODO/Roadmap can be found in Github bug tracker: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-python/issues