Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be displaying data in table which is fetched from api in tkinter using python. The table also have pagination feature enabled to it. All the source code of the example is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the below libraries using the the pip command as shown below
pip install tkinter
After installing all the libraries just make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
app.py
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import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk import json from urllib.request import urlopen import math with urlopen("https://swapi.dev/api/planets/") as re: source = re.read() planets = json.loads(source) planet_count = planets['count'] items = [str(n) for n in range(planet_count)] page = 0 per_page = 10 n_pages = math.ceil((planet_count) / per_page) def show_table(page): print(page+1) count = 0 api_url = f"https://swapi.dev/api/planets/?page={str(page+1)}" with urlopen(api_url) as response: source_bytecode = response.read() planet_data = json.loads(source_bytecode) listBox.delete(*listBox.get_children()) for planet in planet_data['results']: print(planet['name']) listBox.insert("", "end", values=(count+1, planet['name'], planet['climate'], planet['diameter'], planet['terrain'], planet['population'])) count= count+1 main_application = tk.Tk() main_application.geometry('1200x800') main_application.title('Strygwyr') top_label = tk.Label(main_application, text="LED Swords", font=("Arial",30)).grid(row=0, columnspan=3) # create Treeview with 6 columns cols = ('Position', 'Name', 'Climate', 'Diameter', 'Terrain' , 'Population') listBox = ttk.Treeview(main_application, columns=cols, show='headings') # set column headings for col in cols: listBox.heading(col, text=col) listBox.grid(row=1, column=0, columnspan=2) # showTable = tk.Button(main_application, text="Populate table", width=15, command=lambda: show_table(page)).grid(row=4, column=0) closeButton = tk.Button(main_application, text="Close", width=15, command=exit).grid(row=4, column=1) def change_page(delta): global page page = min(n_pages - 1, max(0, page + delta)) update_list() def update_list(): print(page+1) start_index = int(page * per_page) end_index = int((page + 1) * per_page) items_in_page = items[start_index:end_index] view_text = "Page %d/%d: %s" % (page + 1, n_pages, ", ".join(items_in_page)) show.delete(0, tk.END) show.insert(0, view_text) show_table(page) def prev_btn(): change_page(-1) def next_btn(): change_page(+1) tk.Button(main_application, text="next", command=next_btn).grid(row=5, column=0) tk.Button(main_application, text="prev", command=prev_btn).grid(row=5, column=1) show = tk.Entry(main_application) show.grid(row= 6, columnspan =3) update_list() main_application.mainloop() |
Now if you execute the python script by typing the below command as shown below
python app.py
