Odoo REST API

Odoo by default has no REST API. By installing the module rest_api from GitHub and its python dependencies you get one.

Here is an python example script on how to use the the REST API.

import json
import requests
import sys

AUTH_URL = 'http://localhost:8069/web/session/authenticate/'

headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json'}

# Remember to configure default db on odoo configuration file(dbfilter = ^db_name$)
# Authentication credentials
data = {
    'params': {
         'login': 'admin',
         'password': 'admin',
         'db': 'odoo'
    }
}

# Authenticate user
res = requests.post(
    AUTH_URL, 
    data=json.dumps(data), 
    headers=headers
)

# Get session_id from the response cookies
# We are going to use this as our API key
session_id = res.cookies.get('session_id', '')

# Example
# Get products(assuming you have products in you db)
# Here am using query param to fetch only product id and name(This will be faster)
USERS_URL = 'http://localhost:8069/api/product.product/'

# Pass session_id for auth
params = {'session_id': session_id, 'query': '{id, name}'}

res = requests.get(
    USERS_URL, 
    params=params
)

# This will be small since we've retrieved only id and name
print(res.text)