docs+fix: expand docstrings, sanitise AuthenticationError message

spond/__init__.py

@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@
 
 
 class AuthenticationError(Exception):
-    """Error raised on Spond authentication failure."""
+    """Raised when login to the Spond API fails.
+
+    Typical causes:
+
+    - Incorrect username/password.
+    - 2FA enabled on the account (the library does not currently support
+      Spond's TOTP flow — see #205).
+    - The account has hit Spond's login rate limit (`outOfLoginAttempts`).
+    - The Spond login API has changed shape and the response no longer
+      contains an `accessToken`.
+
+    The exception message includes the raw login response, which usually
+    indicates which of the above applies.
+    """
 
     pass

spond/base.py

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+"""Shared base class for Spond API clients.
+
+`_SpondBase` is the abstract parent of both `spond.spond.Spond` (consumer API)
+and `spond.club.SpondClub` (Spond Club finance API). It owns the credentials,
+the underlying aiohttp `ClientSession`, the access token, and the lazy login
+flow used by the `require_authentication` decorator.
+
+Not intended to be instantiated directly — use a subclass.
+"""
+
 from abc import ABC
 from collections.abc import Callable
 
@@ -7,7 +17,27 @@
 
 
 class _SpondBase(ABC):
+    """Abstract base for Spond API clients.
+
+    Subclasses provide the API base URL via the third constructor argument
+    and inherit lazy authentication, the `auth_headers` property, the
+    `require_authentication` decorator, and the `login()` flow.
+    """
+
     def __init__(self, username: str, password: str, api_url: str) -> None:
+        """Initialise credentials and open the aiohttp session.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        username : str
+            Spond account email address.
+        password : str
+            Spond account password.
+        api_url : str
+            Base URL for the API family this client targets (consumer or
+            club). Must end with a trailing slash so relative paths can be
+            concatenated.
+        """
         self.username = username
         self.password = password
         self.api_url = api_url
@@ -58,6 +88,29 @@ async def login(self) -> None:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _extract_access_token(login_result: dict) -> str:
+        """Pull the access-token string out of a `/auth2/login` response.
+
+        The response shape is
+        `{"accessToken": {"token": "<JWT>", "expiration": "..."}, ...}`.
+        This helper validates that shape and returns the bearer string used
+        for subsequent API calls.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        login_result : dict
+            Parsed JSON body from the login endpoint.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        str
+            The bearer-token string.
+
+        Raises
+        ------
+        AuthenticationError
+            The response is malformed or doesn't carry a usable token (e.g.
+            wrong credentials, account locked, 2FA required).
+        """
         access = login_result.get("accessToken")
         if isinstance(access, dict):
             token = access.get("token")

spond/club.py

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+"""Client for the Spond Club finance API.
+
+Spond Club is the paid administration tier sold to clubs/teams alongside the
+free consumer app. It exposes a separate API (`api.spond.com/club/v1/`) for
+finance-flavoured data such as transactions/payments. Use the `SpondClub`
+class for this API and `spond.spond.Spond` for everything else.
+"""
+
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, ClassVar
@@ -9,37 +17,84 @@
 
 
 class SpondClub(_SpondBase):
+    """Async client for the Spond Club finance API.
+
+    Authentication is shared with the consumer API — the same email/password
+    credentials work, but the user must belong to at least one Spond Club
+    organisation and the `club_id` passed to each method must be one they
+    have access to. The `club_id` here is distinct from the consumer-API
+    `groupId`.
+
+    Example
+    -------
+    ```python
+    import asyncio
+    from spond import club
+
+    async def main():
+        sc = club.SpondClub(username="me@example.invalid", password="secret")
+        txs = await sc.get_transactions(club_id="ABCD1234...", max_items=50)
+        for t in txs:
+            print(t["paidAt"], t["paymentName"], t["paidByName"])
+        await sc.clientsession.close()
+
+    asyncio.run(main())
+    ```
+    """
+
     _API_BASE_URL: ClassVar = "https://api.spond.com/club/v1/"
 
     def __init__(self, username: str, password: str) -> None:
+        """Construct a Spond Club client.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        username : str
+            Spond account email. Same credentials as the consumer API; the
+            account must have access to at least one Spond Club organisation
+            for the API calls to return data.
+        password : str
+            Spond account password.
+        """
         super().__init__(username, password, self._API_BASE_URL)
         self.transactions: list[JSONDict] | None = None
 
     @_SpondBase.require_authentication
     async def get_transactions(
         self, club_id: str, skip: int | None = None, max_items: int = 100
     ) -> list[JSONDict]:
-        """
-        Retrieves a list of transactions/payments for a specified club.
+        """Retrieve transactions/payments for a Spond Club.
+
+        Spond's transactions endpoint returns at most 25 records per request,
+        so this method paginates internally (via recursion on `skip`) until
+        either `max_items` is reached or the server returns an empty page.
+        Results are accumulated on `self.transactions`; subsequent calls
+        append to it unless you reset `self.transactions = None` first.
+
+        Each transaction dict typically includes at least `id`, `paidAt`,
+        `paymentName`, and `paidByName`. See `examples/transactions.py` for
+        a usage example.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         club_id : str
-            Identifier for the club. Note that this is different from the Group ID used
-            in the core API.
+            Identifier for the club. Note that this is **different** from the
+            `groupId` used elsewhere in the Spond API — find it in the URL
+            of the Spond Club web UI.
         skip : int, optional
-            This endpoint only returns 25 transactions at a time (page scrolling).
-            Therefore, we need to increment this `skip` param to grab the next
-            25 etc. Defaults to None. It's better to keep `skip` at None
-            and specify `max_items` instead. This param is only here for the
-            recursion implementation.
+            Pagination cursor (number of records to skip). Normally left as
+            `None`; the method increments it itself on recursive calls. Only
+            override if you know what you're doing.
         max_items : int, optional
-            The maximum number of transactions to retrieve. Defaults to 100.
+            Stop fetching once at least this many transactions are
+            accumulated. Defaults to 100. The final list may be slightly
+            longer than `max_items` since the server returns pages of 25.
 
         Returns
         -------
         list[JSONDict]
-            A list of transactions, each represented as a dictionary.
+            All transactions accumulated so far (across recursive page
+            fetches). Empty list if the club has no transactions.
         """
         if self.transactions is None:
             self.transactions = []