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Making it easy to query APIs via SQL

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Shillelagh (ʃɪˈleɪlɪ) is a Python library and CLI that allows you to query many resources (APIs, files, in memory objects) using SQL. It’s both user and developer friendly, making it trivial to access resources and easy to add support for new ones.

The library is an implementation of the Python DB API 2.0 based on SQLite (using the APSW library):

from shillelagh.backends.apsw.db import connect

connection = connect(":memory:")
cursor = connection.cursor()

query = "SELECT * FROM a_table"
for row in cursor.execute(query):
    print(row)

There is also a SQLAlchemy dialect:

from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine

engine = create_engine("shillelagh://")
connection = engine.connect()

query = "SELECT * FROM a_table"
for row in connection.execute(query):
    print(row)

And a command-line utility:

$ shillelagh
sql> SELECT * FROM a_table

Why SQL?

Sharks have been around for a long time. They’re older than trees and the rings of Saturn, actually! The reason they haven’t changed that much in hundreds of millions of years is because they’re really good at what they do.

SQL has been around for some 50 years for the same reason: it’s really good at what it does.

Why “Shillelagh”?

Picture a leprechaun hitting APIs with a big stick so that they accept SQL.

How is it different?

Shillelagh allows you to easily query non-SQL resources. For example, if you have a Google Spreadsheet you can query it directly as if it were a table in a database:

SELECT country, SUM(cnt)
FROM "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_rN3lm0R_bU3NemO0s9pbFkY5LQPcuy1pscv8ZXPtg8/edit#gid=0"
WHERE cnt > 0
GROUP BY country

You can even run INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE queries against the spreadsheet:

UPDATE "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_rN3lm0R_bU3NemO0s9pbFkY5LQPcuy1pscv8ZXPtg8/edit#gid=0"
SET cnt = cnt + 1
WHERE country != 'BR'

Queries like this are supported by adapters. Currently Shillelagh has the following adapters:

Name

Type

URI pattern

Example URI

CSV

File/API

/path/to/file.csv; http(s)://*

/home/user/sample_data.csv

Datasette

API

http(s)://*

https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants/global-power-plants

Generic JSON

API

http(s)://*

https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series?series_id=GNPCA&api_key=XXX&file_type=json#$.seriess[*]

GitHub

API

https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/{$repo}/pulls

https://api.github.com/repos/apache/superset/pulls

GSheets

API

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/${id}/edit#gid=${sheet_id}

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LcWZMsdCl92g7nA-D6qGRqg1T5TiHyuKJUY1u9XAnsk/edit#gid=0

HTML table

API

http(s)://*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

Pandas

In memory

Any variable name (local or global)

my_df

S3

API

s3://bucket/path/to/file

s3://shillelagh/sample_data.csv

Socrata

API

https://${domain}/resource/${dataset-id}.json

https://data.cdc.gov/resource/unsk-b7fc.json

System

API

system://${resource}

system://cpu?interval=2

WeatherAPI

API

https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/history.json?key=${key}&q=${location}

https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/history.json?key=XXX&q=London

There are also 3rd-party adapters:

A query can combine data from multiple adapters:

INSERT INTO "/tmp/file.csv"
SELECT time, chance_of_rain
FROM "https://api.weatherapi.com/v1/history.json?q=London"
WHERE time IN (
  SELECT datetime
  FROM "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_rN3lm0R_bU3NemO0s9pbFkY5LQPcuy1pscv8ZXPtg8/edit#gid=1648320094"
)

The query above reads timestamps from a Google sheet, uses them to filter weather data from WeatherAPI, and writes the chance of rain into a (pre-existing) CSV file.

New adapters are relatively easy to implement. There’s a step-by-step tutorial that explains how to create a new adapter to an API or filetype.

Installation

Install Shillelagh with pip:

$ pip install 'shillelagh'

You also need to install optional dependencies, depending on the adapter you want to use:

$ pip install 'shillelagh[console]'        # to use the CLI
$ pip install 'shillelagh[datasetteapi]'   # for Datasette
$ pip install 'shillelagh[genericjsonapi]' # for Generic JSON
$ pip install 'shillelagh[githubapi]'      # for GitHub
$ pip install 'shillelagh[gsheetsapi]'     # for GSheets
$ pip install 'shillelagh[htmltableapi]'   # for HTML tables
$ pip install 'shillelagh[pandasmemory]'   # for Pandas in memory
$ pip install 'shillelagh[s3selectapi]'    # for S3 files
$ pip install 'shillelagh[socrataapi]'     # for Socrata API
$ pip install 'shillelagh[systemapi]'      # for CPU information
$ pip install 'shillelagh[weatherapi]'     # for WeatherAPI

Alternatively, you can install everything with:

$ pip install 'shillelagh[all]'

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