If you’ve worked with biometric attendance systems, you already know the hardest part usually isn’t the device itself — it’s the integration layer. Different vendors expose different APIs, date formats, authentication methods, and response structures. One of the systems I recently worked with was ETimeOffice , and I wanted a cleaner way to interact with its attendance APIs directly from Python and Django applications. So I built: pyetimeoffice A lightweight Python integration library for working with the ETimeOffice API. GitHub: https://github.com/KSreethul/pyetimeoffice PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pyetimeoffice/ Why I Built It In HRMS and attendance systems, we often need to: Download punch records Process in/out attendance logs Sync attendance with HRMS platforms Handle employee punch data programmatically Normalize inconsistent API response formats While integrating ETimeOffice into Django-based HRMS systems, I noticed the same boilerplate code being repeated everywhere: HTTP Basic authentication setup…