How to use the Trello API

Purpose of this page: Simple steps for using the Trello API to implement various tasks.

How to get started with Trello API:

• Login into your Trello Account.
• Go to this link to get the API Key.
• On the same page, click on generate token to generate a token which needs to be used to get authorization for your boards, lists & cards.
• Sample Code in Python to read all the details related to user having dsd2981 as his member id
  Code:

  
  import requests
  url_member = "https://api.trello.com/1/members/dsd2981"
  querystring = {"key":"b282952c1211b7eb3c16b7c3adfbbf7f","token":"12f1ebbfd62746257dbfb66c07ce42d1240d0a0cf0d1959b5706f411edd6315d"}
  response_member = requests.request("GET", url_member, params=querystring)
  data_member = json.loads(response_member.text)
  board_ids = data_member['idBoards']
  
  

  Note: You can find your member ID in your Trello Profile page

Extracting all the cards in a board:

• Code:

  
  url_board_cards = "https://api.trello.com/1/boards/" + board_ids[i]+"/cards"
  response_board_cards = requests.request("GET", url_board_cards, params=querystring)
  data_board_cards = json.loads(response_board_cards.text)
  
  

How to send a mail using python:

• Code:

  
  # set up the SMTP server
  s = smtplib.SMTP(host='smtp.gmail.com', port=587)
  s.starttls()
  
  # reading login credentials from a EMAIL_INFO.txt file
  # Format of EMAIL_INFO.txt file:<email_id><password>
  text_file = open("EMAIL_INFO.txt","r")
  lines = text_file.read().split(' ')
  s.login(user=lines[0], password=lines[1])
  
  to_contacts = ["dsd298@nyu.edu"]
  for i in range(0, len(to_contacts)):
      msg = MIMEMultipart()       # create a message
      # message = "this is a test"
      msg['From'] = "devopsnyu@gmail.com"
      msg['To'] = to_contacts[i]
      msg['Subject'] = "Card Inactivity Information E-Mail"
  
      # add in the message body
      msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain'))
  
      s.send_message(msg)
      del msg
  
  # closing SMTP connection
  s.quit()