Introduction

Python-Freshchat is a Python client library for Freshchat messaging software.

Freshchat API allows the following actions:

  • Create or return an existing user
  • Create, update or return an existing conversation
  • Return existing channels

Using Python-Freshchat the user can accomplish all the above actions

Getting started

You can install Python-Freshchat using pip:

pip install "python-freshchat"

Now you can start using Python-Freshchat client by importing from the top-level freshchat package. Nearly everything defined in the sub-packages can also be imported directly from the top-level package.

Usage

The first step which needs to be done, to enable the freshchat.client.client is to initialize freshchat.client.configuration:

from freshchat.client.configuration import FreshChatConfiguration
from freshchat.client.client import FreshChatClient


config = FreshChatConfiguration(
                app_id="app_id",
                token="token",
                default_channel_id="default_channel_id",
                default_initial_message= "default_initial_message" or None
            )
client = FreshChatClient (config = config)

Using the client which is already configured with the required information, the user can create, update and get freshchat entities provided freshchat.models

Entities Examples Usage

The following example creates a Freshchat user:

from freshchat.models import User

arguments = {
    "email": "peter.griffin@test.com",
    "first_name": "Peter",
    "last_name": "Griffin"
}
user = await User.create(client=client, **arguments)

A new conversation requires a user id, we can use the id of the user created above to create a conversation. The user should also define a channel id to assign the conversation, by default the default_channel_id has been used if no channel id is defined:

from freshchat.models import Conversation

arguments = {
    "user_id" : user.id
}

conversation = await Conversation.create(
            client=client,
            **arguments
        )

The following example returns a list with the available channels configured in Freshchat interface:

from freshchat.models import Channels

channels = await Channels.get(self.client)

Reporting Issues and Contributing

Please visit the GitHub repository of Python-Freshchat if you’re interested in the current development or want to report issues or send pull requests.