Use nationbuilder API and rauth to create, update, and delete a person

nationbuilder_people.py

from rauth import OAuth2Service

nation_slug = "aura"
REDIRECT_URI = "aura_redirect"


## Authenticate using OAuth
access_token_url = "http://" + nation_slug + ".nationbuilder.com/oauth/token"
authorize_url = nation_slug + ".nationbuilder.com/oauth/authorize"

service = OAuth2Service(
    client_id = "aaaaaaaa",
    client_secret = "bbbbbbb",
    name = "any name",
    authorize_url = authorize_url,
    access_token_url = access_token_url,
    base_url = nation_slug + ".nationbuilder.com")

token = service.get_access_token(decoder=json.loads, data = {"code": code,
                                    "redirect_uri": REDIRECT_URI, "grant_type": "authorization_code"})

session = service.get_session(token)


def endpoint(endpoint):
    """
    Helper for endpoints
    """
	return 'https://' + nation_slug + ".nationbuilder.com/api/v1/" + endpoint

## Create the person
person = {'person':{
	'first_name': 'Kevin',
	'last_name': 'McLaughlin',
	'email': '[email protected]'
}}

response = session.post(endpoint("people"), 
                      params={'format': 'json'}, 
                      json=person)

assert 201 == response.status_code, "Could not create person!"

user_id = repr(response.json().get('person').get('id'))

## Update the person by adding an address

address = {"person", {"home_address": {
        "address1": "123 Nationbuilder Rd",
        "address2": null,
        "address3": null,
        "city": "Austin",
        "state": "Texas",
        "country_code": "US",
        "zip": "78705",
      }}}

response = session.put(endpoint('people/'+user_id), params={'format': 'json'}, json=address)
assert 200 == response.status_code, "Could not update person!"

## Delete the person

#remove person
response = session.delete(endpoint('people/'+user_id), params=params)
assert 204 == response.status_code, "Could not remove person!"

Note: not sure this works because nationbuilder doesn't let you test drive their api until you become an approved developer