celbridge-hub-api-client

Repo: https://github.com/celbridge-org/celbridge-hub-api-client

Client to connect to Celbridge-hub API for ZIPed package upload and download

• (see celbridge-hub package API server: https://github.com/celbridge-org/celbridge-hub)

v4 client — targets the v8 server (pages decoupled from packages). Authentication is via an API key; the old admin-login/password flow is gone. Pages are now published as their own ZIP uploads, independent of packages (see TDDS/version 4 design document.md).

setup - create .env

Create a .env with the server URL and your organisation API key:

BASE_URL=https://yourusername.pythonanywhere.com
API_KEY=kpf_xxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The API key is issued once by your organisation admin (it is stored only as a salted hash on the server, so it cannot be recovered later — keep it safe). Every request the client makes sends Authorization: Api-Key <key>; there is no separate login step. See .env.example for a template.

CLI menu script

An interactive menu makes it easy to browse packages, upload new versions from the files_to_upload/ directory, download to downloads/, manage aliases, and publish web pages.

Single-file uploads (the old upload.py / /api/upload/) were removed in v7. To upload, use the menu's Upload option or package_upload.py.

top-level menu

    % python menu.py

    Connected to https://yourusername.pythonanywhere.com with API key.

    === Packages API ===
      1 - Packages    (list / show / register / delete)
      2 - Versions    (list / detail / upload / download / tombstone)
      3 - Aliases     (list / set / remove)
      4 - History     (full / as-of-version)
      5 - Pages       (publish / list / detail / unpublish)
      6 - Download latest version        (GET  /api/packages/{name}/latest)
      7 - Upload a package               (POST /api/packages/{name}/versions)
      0 - Exit

    Select option:

example: listing and inspecting packages

    Select option: 1

    --- Packages ---
      1 - List all packages              (GET    /api/packages)
      2 - Show package metadata          (GET    /api/packages/{name})
      3 - Register a new (empty) package (POST   /api/packages)
      4 - Delete entire package          (DELETE /api/packages/{name})
      0 - Back

    Select option: 1
      GET https://yourusername.pythonanywhere.com/api/packages/

    Name                            Latest  Vers  Author               Uploaded
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    fred-chess                           2     2  popeye               2026-05-09 14:19:01
    space-chess24                        1     1  chris                2026-05-09 14:22:26

    Select option: 2
    ...
    Enter number (or press Enter to cancel): 1
      GET https://yourusername.pythonanywhere.com/api/packages/fred-chess/

    Package: fred-chess
    Created: 2026-05-09 14:11:38

     Ver  Author               Uploaded               Tomb  Summary
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       2  popeye               2026-05-09 14:19:01          added feature - should become version 2
       1  mattilda             2026-05-09 14:11:38          forked to create new package fred-chess

    Alias                Version
    ------------------------------
    latest                     2

example: publishing a web page

In v8 pages are independent of packages. A page is its own ZIP upload whose root is the served site, plus a pages.toml manifest naming the publish path:

[publish]
path = "dev/chess24"

The bundle is served at /pages/<org-slug>/<path>/ (public, unauthenticated). Re-uploading the same path replaces it; uploading, tombstoning, or deleting a package never affects a page.

    Select option: 5

    --- Pages ---
      (pages are independent of packages: each page is its own ZIP upload
       containing a pages.toml with [publish].path; served at /pages/<org>/<path>/)
      1 - Publish a page (upload ZIP)    (POST   /api/pages)
      2 - List published pages          (GET    /api/pages)
      3 - Show page detail              (GET    /api/pages/{path})
      4 - Unpublish a page              (DELETE /api/pages/{path})
      0 - Back

    Select option: 1
    ...
    This bundle publishes to path: dev/chess24
      POST https://yourusername.pythonanywhere.com/api/pages
    Published page: dev/chess24
      Page: https://yourusername.pythonanywhere.com/pages/acme/dev/chess24/

uploading from the command line

package_upload.py uploads a single package ZIP (must contain package.toml with a name):

  python package_upload.py ./files_to_upload/mysite.zip --summary "my change"

running the tests

The tests are live integration tests — they run against the server in BASE_URL using the API_KEY from .env (and skip if the server is unreachable or the key is rejected):

  pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
  pytest -q