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Python Module to use the Readwise API

This module is a wrapper for the Readwise API.

It allows you to easily access your Readwise data in Python.

Installation

pip install -U readwise

How to use

Readwise API

from readwise import Readwise

client = Readwise('token')

books = client.get_books(category='articles')

for book in books:
    highlights = client.get_book_highlights(book.id)
    if len(highlights) > 0:
        print(book.title)
        for highlight in highlights:
            print(highlight.text)

Readwise Readwise API

from readwise import ReadwiseReader

client = ReadwiseReader('token')

response = client.create_document('https://www.example.com')
response.raise_for_status()

Documentation

The latest documentation can be found at https://rwxd.github.io/pyreadwise/

If you've checked out the source code (for example to review a PR), you can build the latest documentation by running make serve-docs.