calpads

An unofficial Python Web API wrapper for California Department of Education's CALPADS.

Version 0.5.0 is pretty great and covers many use-cases. Given its lack of official support, the wrapper is subject to break at any moment if the internals of CALPADS magic change.

We Have Documentation!

Supported endpoints, downloads, and other features are documented in our GitBook website. Here are some of our favorite highlights:

• A number of /Students endpoints are currently functional. These are the famous individual sub-sections on the student page, but delivered in JSON with ⚡️ speed
• Reports downloads for reports with an expressive API that exposes most form fields
• Extracts downloads for most extracts with an expressive API to support many requesting "modes" (e.g. by date range)
• Supports switching between multiple LEAs
• Supports uploading and posting files
• Supports fetching file upload errors (using the Extracts downloads)

Installation

• To get much of this speed gain, we depend on lxml. They have specific installation instructions here.
• Recommend pip: pip install git+https://github.com/SummitPublicSchools/calpads.git