ActionKit
Overview
ActionKit is a platform for advocacy, fundraising, and get-out-the-vote. This Parsons integration with the ActionKit REST API supports fetching, creating, and updating records of campaigns, events, and users. Bulk upload of new users and user updates is also supported.
Note
- Authentication
ActionKit requires HTTP Basic Auth. Clients with an ActionKit account can obtain the domain, username, and password needed to access the ActionKit API. See the ActionKit REST API Authentication documentation for more information on obtaining ActionKit API credentials.
Quickstart
To instantiate the ActionKit class, you can either store your ActionKit API
domain, username, and password as environmental variables (ACTION_KIT_DOMAIN,
ACTION_KIT_USERNAME, and ACTION_KIT_PASSWORD, respectively) or pass in your
domain, username, and password as arguments:
from parsons import ActionKit
# First approach: Use API credentials via environmental variables
ak = ActionKit()
# Second approach: Pass API credentials as arguments
ak = ActionKit(domain='myorg.actionkit.com', username='my_name', password='1234')
You can then call various endpoints:
# Create a new user
ak.create_user(email='john@email', first_name='John', last_name='Smith', city='Boston')
# Fetch user fields
user_fields = ak.get_user(user_id='123')
# Update user fields
ak.update_user(user_id='123', city='New York')
# Delete uer
ak.delete_user(user_id='123')