How to generate a UPC-E barcode as a PNG file in Python

Barcodes have an important place in many businesses, but handling them in Python can be a bit tricky. Responding to this, we have a solution for you in the form of an API that can generate UPC-E barcodes (among others). Let’s get started on the setup process.

First is our client installation, using this command for pip install:

pip install cloudmersive-barcode-api-client

Now for our function call for generate_barcode_upce:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_barcode_api_client
from cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.GenerateBarcodeApi(cloudmersive_barcode_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
value = 'value_example' # str | UPC-E barcode value to generate from
try:
# Validates and generate a UPC-E barcode as a PNG file, a type of 1D barcode
api_response = api_instance.generate_barcode_upce(value)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling GenerateBarcodeApi->generate_barcode_upce: %s\n" % e)

Now we just feed our desired value into generate_barcode_upce and the API will handle all the rest on its end. What a snap!