This is a part of the Solr Clients list. As with the main list, the latest source update is listed - where possibly - as a proxy for level of relevance.
SolrClient An actively-developed client based on Python 3 and targeting Solr 5.
Last update: November 2015
solrcloudpy is a library designed specifically for interacting with SolrCloud. It also comes with an interactive console.
Last update: April 2015
solrpy is available at The Python Package Index so you should be able to:
easy_install solrpy |
Or you can check out the source code and:
python setup.py install |
Last update: April 2015
pysolr - lightweight python wrapper for Solr.
Last update: October 2015
Sunburnt is a Solr library, both for inserting and querying documents. Its development has aimed particularly at making the Solr API accessible in a Pythonic style.
Last Release: version 0.6 in Jan 2012. Last code update November 2015 (has lots of forks though by other groups)
Solr has an optional Python response format that extends its JSON output in the following ways to allow the response to be safely eval'd by Python's interpreter:
Here is a simple example of how one may query Solr using the Python response format:
from urllib2 import * conn = urlopen('http://localhost:8983/solr/collection/select?q=iPod&wt=python') rsp = eval( conn.read() ) print "number of matches=", rsp['response']['numFound'] #print out the name field for each returned document for doc in rsp['response']['docs']: print 'name field =', doc['name'] |
With Python 2.6 you can use the literal_eval function instead of eval. This only evaluates "safe" syntax for the built-in data types and not any executable code:
import ast rsp = ast.literal_eval(conn.read()) |
Using eval
is generally considered bad form and dangerous in Python. In theory if you trust the remote server it is okay, but if something goes wrong it means someone can run arbitrary code on your server (attacking eval is very easy).
It would be better to use a Python JSON library like simplejson. It would look like:
from urllib2 import * import simplejson conn = urlopen('http://localhost:8983/solr/collection/select?q=iPod&wt=json') rsp = simplejson.load(conn) ... |
Safer, and as you can see, easy.