{"categories":[{"label":"Libraries","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries/3"},{"label":"Python Modules","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries-python-modules/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Client library for writing to and querying InfluxDB 1.x time-series databases over HTTP.","skillfed_tags":["legacy","time-series-db","archived"],"use_cases":["Querying and writing metrics to an existing InfluxDB 1.x instance in a legacy application.","Ingesting time-series data (CPU load, memory usage, application metrics) into InfluxDB 1.x from Python.","Building monitoring dashboards or reports that pull data from InfluxDB 1.x via Python scripts.","Migrating data from InfluxDB 1.x to another system by reading points and transforming them.","Running batch analytics on historical time-series data stored in InfluxDB 1.x."],"what_it_does":"This is a Python client for InfluxDB 1.x, a distributed time-series database. It provides an HTTP-based interface to create databases, write data points with tags and fields, and execute queries. The library wraps requests to handle authentication, serialization (via msgpack), and timezone conversion (via pytz and python-dateutil).\n\nThe package is no longer actively maintained\u2014the repository is archived and the maintainers have explicitly directed InfluxDB 2.x users to use influxdb-client-python and InfluxDB 3.0 users to use the v3 client library instead. It remains available for legacy InfluxDB 1.x deployments but should not be chosen for new projects unless you are locked into InfluxDB 1.x.","worth_installing":"No, unless you are maintaining a legacy InfluxDB 1.x deployment with no upgrade path. The repository is archived, maintenance is abandoned, and the maintainers explicitly recommend newer client libraries for InfluxDB 2.x and 3.x. For new projects, use influxdb-client-python or the v3 client library instead. For existing 1.x systems, use this only if you cannot upgrade InfluxDB itself."},"id":"influxdb","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/influxdb","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/influxdb.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/influxdb/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2024-04-18","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"influxdb","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"InfluxDB client"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":4281327,"position":2343,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"5.3.2"}