python-debianbts is a Python library that allows for querying Debian's Bug Tracking System using its SOAP interface. With this package you can query for bugs of a particular package, get the status of a bug read the messages of bug reports and more.
Since 2011, python-debianbts is used by Debian's reportbug to query the Bug Tracking System and has currently (2024) roughly 200.000 installations.
Online documentation is available on readthedocs.
python-debianbts is available on Debian, on every other platform it can be installed via pip:
pip install python-debianbts>>> import debianbts as bts >>> bts.get_bugs(package='python-debianbts') [803900, 787723, 824111, 639458, 726878, 722226, 789047] >>> bts.get_status([803900, 787723]) [<debianbts.debianbts.Bugreport at 0x7f47080d8c10>, <debianbts.debianbts.Bugreport at 0x7f47080d80d0>] >>> for b in bts.get_status([803900, 787723]): ... print(b) ... originator: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> date: 2015-06-04 13:09:02 subject: reportbug: crashes when querying Debian BTS for reports on wnpp msgid: <20150604130538.GA16742@debian.org> package: python-debianbts tags: ['fixed-upstream', 'patch', 'jessie'] done: True forwarded: https://github.com/venthur/python-debianbts/pull/5 mergedwith: [722226, 726878, 789047] severity: important owner: found_versions: [] fixed_versions: ['python-debianbts/1.13'] blocks: [] blockedby: [] unarchived: True summary: affects: [] log_modified: 2019-07-08 07:27:36 location: archive archived: True bug_num: 787723 source: python-debianbts pending: done done_by: Bastian Venthur <venthur@debian.org> originator: Wookey <wookey@debian.org> date: 2015-11-03 01:39:01 subject: reportbug errors out with SOAP error msgid: <20151103013542.11170.31413.reportbug@cheddar.halon.org.uk> package: python-debianbts tags: [] done: False forwarded: mergedwith: [] severity: normal owner: found_versions: [] fixed_versions: ['python-debianbts/2.0'] blocks: [] blockedby: [] unarchived: False summary: affects: [] log_modified: 2015-11-03 08:36:04 location: db-h archived: False bug_num: 803900 source: python-debianbts pending: pending done_by: None