Fileforge Python Library

The Fileforge Python Library provides convenient access to the Fileforge API from applications written in Python.

The library includes type definitions for all request and response fields, and offers both synchronous and asynchronous clients powered by httpx.

Installation

Add this dependency to your project's build file:

pip install fileforge
# or
poetry add fileforge

Usage

Simply import Fileforge and start making calls to our API.

from fileforge import GenerateRequestOptions
from fileforge.client import Fileforge

client = Fileforge(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY" # Defaults to FILEFORGE_API_KEY
)
client.generate(
    options=GenerateRequestOptions(),
    files=["path/to/file1", "path/to/file2"]
)

Async Client

The SDK also exports an async client so that you can make non-blocking calls to our API.

from fileforge import GenerateRequestOptions
from fileforge.client import AsyncFileforge

client = AsyncFileforge(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"  # Defaults to FILEFORGE_API_KEY
)

async def main() -> None:
    client.generate(
        options=GenerateRequestOptions(),
        files=["path/to/file1", "path/to/file2"]
    )
asyncio.run(main())

Exception Handling

All errors thrown by the SDK will be subclasses of ApiError.

import fileforge

try:
    client.generate(...)
except fileforge.core.ApiError as e: # Handle all errors
  print(e.status_code)
  print(e.body)

Advanced

Timeouts

By default, requests time out after 60 seconds. You can configure this with a timeout option at the client or request level.

from fileforge.client import Fileforge

client = Fileforge(
    # All timeouts are 20 seconds
    timeout=20.0,
)

# Override timeout for a specific method
fileforge.generate(..., {
    timeout_in_seconds=20.0
})

Retries

The SDK is instrumented with automatic retries with exponential backoff. A request will be retried as long as the request is deemed retriable and the number of retry attempts has not grown larger than the configured retry limit (default: 2).

A request is deemed retriable when any of the following HTTP status codes is returned:

• 408 (Timeout)
• 429 (Too Many Requests)
• 5XX (Internal Server Errors)

Use the max_retries request option to configure this behavior.

client.generate(..., {
     max_retries=1
})

Custom HTTP client

You can override the httpx client to customize it for your use-case. Some common use-cases include support for proxies and transports.

import httpx

from fileforge.client import Fileforge

client = Fileforge(
    http_client=httpx.Client(
        proxies="http://my.test.proxy.example.com",
        transport=httpx.HTTPTransport(local_address="0.0.0.0"),
    ),
)

Beta Status

This SDK is in Preview, and there may be breaking changes between versions without a major version update.

To ensure a reproducible environment (and minimize risk of breaking changes), we recommend pinning a specific package version.

Contributing

While we value open-source contributions to this SDK, this library is generated programmatically. Additions made directly to this library would have to be moved over to our generation code, otherwise they would be overwritten upon the next generated release. Feel free to open a PR as a proof of concept, but know that we will not be able to merge it as-is. We suggest opening an issue first to discuss with us!

On the other hand, contributions to the README are always very welcome!