Using the Dynalist API in Python (With example code to export flattened document)

BigChungus · March 14, 2021, 11:32pm

What does it do? - It returns a whole document, flat, not necessarily in perfect order, in ASCII text

How do I run it? - Anywhere that python runs. My favorite place is Colab. Paste it in and press shift-Enter to run it.

Why did you make it? - Nobody on the Dynalist Forums has ever admitted to using the read API, and I am trying to learn programming, so I dived in an made something that uses the read API.

Why are you sharing it? - I’m hoping other folks will take my code, mess around and make it do cool things. Maybe you can get dynalist nodes to import into other apps via IFTTT or something? Maybe you can make cool new Export formats? Reading a document into Python is the first step to any number of cool ideas. In the science world, when one team makes a breakthrough, many others make similar breakthroughs independently just because they know it’s possible. So here’s some inspiration. Plus I got to learn a bit of programming.

import requests
import json

print("See your API token at https://dynalist.io/developer \n \
See your document ID in your browser address bar: \
 _____dynalist.io/d/THIS_PART <--")
token=input("Paste your API token: ") or "optional_put_token_here"
file_id=input("Paste your document ID: ") or "optional_put_file_id_here"

r=requests.post("https://dynalist.io/api/v1/doc/read", \
                json = {"token": token, "file_id": file_id})
doc_dict = r.json()
doc_list_of_dicts = doc_dict["nodes"]
dict1 = {}
str1 = ""

for i in range(len(doc_list_of_dicts)):
    str1 = str1 + doc_list_of_dicts[i]["content"] + "\n"

print(str1)

BigChungus · March 15, 2021, 4:03am

I’ve been informed there’s actually a bunch of python for dynalist out there

github.com

PoJo93/dynalist-chatbot/blob/master/bot/dynalist.py

import requests
import typing
from bot import Entity
from bot import CAIConversation
import phonenumbers
import phonenumbers.geocoder
from emojiflags.lookup import lookup
from phonenumbers.phonenumberutil import region_code_for_number
import nltk

nltk.download('punkt')
nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger')

class DynalistClient:
    """This client handles the calls to the dynalist API enpoints"""

    def _call_api(self, cai_conversation, api):
        payload = api.build_api_request(self, conversation=cai_conversation)
        print(payload)
        return requests.post(api.address, json=payload)

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github.com

siancu/gmail2dynalist/blob/master/gmail-to-dynalist.py

import pickle
import os.path
import sys

import requests
import sqlite_utils
from googleapiclient import errors
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request

# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly']
# The labels from where to get the messages (only starred by default)
# Other possible values can include:
# IMPORTANT, INBOX, UNREAD, CATEGORY_UPDATES, CATEGORY_PROMOTIONS, CATEGORY_PERSONAL, CATEGORY_SOCIAL
# Note that the script doesn't check for duplicates when running the first time and mails are in more than one category.
LABEL_IDS = ['STARRED']
USER_ID = 'me'
EMAIL_URL = 'https://mail.google.com/mail/#all/'

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github.com

georgefeng/dynalist/blob/master/dynalist/dynalist.py

"""

Dynalist Class Instance
***********************
>>> dynalist = Dynalist(file_id='FF7nfSyfsJjx9NvOfqts_rfO')
>>> dynalist.get_node('root') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
{'id': 'root', 'content':..., 'note': '', ...}

Examples
********
For a full list of available methods see the :any:`Dynalist` class below.

Doc:
>>> dynalist.doc

Children nodes
>>> dynalist.get_children(node_id='root')

Search:
>>> dynalist.search('123')

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