freeagent-api

FreeAgent API

A package for interacting with the FreeAgent accounting software.

Mainly made for personal use, but sharing it here because... well, why not? :-)

Limitations

Currently only invoice related functionality is available. Other features are likely to be added in time.

Install from PyPI

pip install freeagent_api

Usage

import freeagent_api

api = freeagent_api.ApiClient(
    client_id = '<client id from dev.freeagent.com>',
    client_secret = '<client secret from dev.freeagent.com>',
    use_sandbox = True,
)

# Load a serialised token from wherever you store them here
api.serialised_token = your_storage.get_token() # Implement this yourself
# or ask the user to authorise access to their account
api.do_auth()

# Get some basic info about the authenticated user
user = api.get_user()
company = api.get_company()
print(f"{user.fullname} works for {company.name}")
print()

# Find unpaid invoices
for invoice in api.get_invoices(status = "open_or_overdue"):
    print(f"Invoice {invoice.reference} for {invoice.currency} {invoice.total_value} is unpaid")

# Store the authentication token for later use
storage.set_token(api.serialised_token) # Implement this yourself

This will, assuming appropriate invoices exist, display something along the lines of:

Tim the Enchanter works for Arthurian Enchanters Ltd

Invoice ART01 for GBP 112.15 is unpaid
Invoice ART02 for USD 245.10 is unpaid
Invoice RBT01 for GBP 2.50 is unpaid

Available data

See FreeAgent's official API documentation for the basic fields in each object. In addition to those, the following properties and methods are available:

freeagent_api.Company

• address(include_country = True) returns the full address of the authorised user's company as a multiline string.

freeagent_api.Contact

• address(include_country = True) returns the full address of the contact as a multiline string.
• fullname returns the first and last name of the contact (if defined) as a single string.
• name returns the name to use on invoices. This will either be the contact's full name or company name, depending on which is defined and the contact_name_on_invoices setting for the contact.

freeagent_api.User

• fullname returns the first and last name of the authorised user as a single string.

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Acknowledgements

Repository ison is adapted from 'accounting' by Vectors Market from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0), with the currency symbol replaced.