Installation and Configuration

It is strongly suggested that you should already know what is virtualenv, preferably virtualenvwrapper at this stage.

You can easily install couchbasekit via pip:

$ pip install couchbasekit

Note

couchbasekit has dependencies on:

• couchbase
• jsonpickle
• python-dateutil
• py-bcrypt (optional for couchbasekit.fields.PasswordField)

Then, the only configuration you have to do is couchbase authentication, somewhere at the beginning of your application (such as settings.py if you’re using Django Web Framework for example):

from couchbasekit import Connection
Connection.auth('theusername', 'p@ssword')

or:

from couchbasekit import Connection
Connection.auth(
    username='theusername', password='p@ssword',
    server='localhost', port='8091', # default already
)

That’s it. Now, you are ready for a crash course. See Quick Start.