Using the Zoho CRM Python SDK to access data via API v2

I've been trying to figure out how to use the Python SDK for months and finally cracked it. Here's a walkthrough. Sorry about my blocked nose. Hope you can still understand me!

[@robertglaser3502]

Hey, I'm deeply impressed. Even though I have been developing quite a long time, I have never ever worked with the Zoho API and Python before. But your vid saved our asses today. Cheers.

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

Glad it helped

[@nimbility]

Very helpful! Way more helpful than Zoho's documentation.

[@ellerymckenzie347]

Lifesaver mate! You just saved me a ton of frustration.

[@DiosanXaquerry]

Thank you very much for this video this is helping with using the Ruby SDK. The scopes thing really is not documented as it should be. It is truly disappointing. If not for you I would be going through alot more suffering than I already am with this implementation. THANK YOU !!!

[@lukec7499]

Great video, extremely helpful. Keep it up!

[@xaveri28]

Thank You Soooo much. This was a great help!

[@KageanRage]

thanks very much for the video, this is very helpful!

[@patrickmutuku9579]

The file persistence with the .pkl file can be improved to have oauth tokens saved in a database. By default, it requires a mysql db but if you can write a custom storage backend for it i.e methods to save, get, delete from your custom db, it will work better for deployments.
Nice video. thank you

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

Yeah I'm not a fan of MySQL DBs (prefer Postgres) and see no reason to use a database for the use cases I have. If you were running SDK code across several servers (and therefore can't use a single pkl file) that would be a different story (but I'd question why you'd need to be using multiple servers).

[@patrickmutuku]

@@SMSinZohoCRM The reason for a db was to avoid having to create and configure storage buckets in google app engine because editable files are by default not allowed. Since GAE deployments are on multiple servers, I think that is why. In the end, I went with just writing my own functions.

[@conanmartin2181]

Hi, thanks for the video, very useful! I also find Zoho documentation a bit lacking...
Any idea how you would get this to work with multiple zoho accounts, running from one instance? I have a server function I run using the URL API for multiple clients, but would like to make use of the SDKs, but not sure how (if it's even possible) to access multiple accounts.

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

If it involves end users logging to access their data, you could use the OAuth flow.

[@webartisan6848]

Thanks alot mate :)

[@MoultonRock]

Great video mate. Would you please link to your serverless custom functions video? I've searched and just can find it!
Thanks, keep up the good work!

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

I couldn't find one either! Recorded a new one: th-cam.com/video/FAWgP7pqsdU/w-d-xo.html

[@MartinBlonkNL]

Thanks!

[@alq2101]

How is it that you can only run init.py once and then get all the data you need in test.py? For me, my grant token is only valid after one run of init.py, if I then try to run test.py after running init.py it says my grant token is invalid.

[@harisusilo3951]

hi i connect to environment sandbox true. but error
Environments specified in the API URL and bound with token do not match
DOMAIN_TOKEN_MISMATCH
{}
Environments specified in the API URL and bound with token do not match
why?
api version 2

[@harisusilo3951]

hello ,
if i created deals from zcrm sdk python is possible?
any example script for created deals from python sdk?

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

Have you read the docs? www.zoho.com/crm/developer/docs/python-sdk/record-samples.html?src=create_record

[@harisusilo3951]

@@SMSinZohoCRM i try this tutorial end error
400
invalid data
INVALID_DATA
{'api_name': 'data'}
invalid data
why?

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

@@harisusilo3951 contact [e-mail]

[@nagaarjunk.r3808]

Hi @Ethical Technology , I tried a lot to get the leads and deals from crm using python sdk. But shows the following error, Caused By: INVALID CLIENT ERROR - invalid_client

[@nagaarjunk.r3808]

some one pls help here ! Anyone has code samples for that. I have tried a lot with zcrm sdk. doesn't works.

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

@@nagaarjunk.r3808 contact [e-mail]

[@harisusilo3951]

helo i have a question. why sandbox:true i get error HTTP 204 but i get id in sandbox

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

Try contacting [e-mail] for that question.

[@azkymohamed123]

Hi. I followed everything you showed but for some reason it's throwing out a ton of errors? Happy to share the logs if you are interested to help thanks.

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

Sure - shoot me an email with the logs: [e-mail]

[@MuhammedFaisalTP]

Why i am getting return response.json()['Email']
KeyError: 'Email' this error

[@reeshabhchoudhary5112]

Hey mate, can you also help with setting up Zoho CRM with Java SDK?

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

haven't tried the Java SDK sorry

[@ducnguyenminh6736]

Thanks for very helpful video. I tried it out, but got stuck in the step of getting access token, it showed error: invalid_code. Please help!

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

You might need to contact Zoho about this.

[@shantanudwivedi3518]

can you please help us replicating this with zcrmsdk?

[@harisusilo3951]

i try code but error ImportError: cannot import name ABC
why?

[@SMSinZohoCRM]

Not sure where ABC comes from. Perhaps you can make a github gist and share it.

[@UsmanKhan-qb6dk]

Getting the same error

[@UsmanKhan-qb6dk]

I contacted Zoho about this and they fixed it in their 2.0.4 release. This error would occur if you are running a version of python lower than 3. Since ABC relies on 3.4 >

[@harisusilo3951]

@@UsmanKhan-qb6dk yes i use python 2.7 and work

[@UsmanKhan-qb6dk]

@@harisusilo3951 Yeah that makes sense you were having that issue. If you update to the latest version of zcrmsdk it should be fixed now.

[@lorenzoarcari511]

Non-US users should add the line:
"apiBaseUrl": "www.zohoapis.eu"
to their config dictionary.