diff --git a/rhodecode/bin/base.py b/rhodecode/bin/base.py
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+"""
+Base utils for shell scripts
+"""
+import os
+import sys
+import random
+import urllib2
+import pprint
+
+try:
+    from rhodecode.lib.ext_json import json
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        import simplejson as json
+    except ImportError:
+        import json
+
+CONFIG_NAME = '.rhodecode'
+FORMAT_PRETTY = 'pretty'
+FORMAT_JSON = 'json'
+
+
+def api_call(apikey, apihost, format, method=None, **kw):
+    """
+    Api_call wrapper for RhodeCode
+
+    :param apikey:
+    :param apihost:
+    :param format: formatting, pretty means prints and pprint of json
+     json returns unparsed json
+    :param method:
+    """
+    def _build_data(random_id):
+        """
+        Builds API data with given random ID
+
+        :param random_id:
+        :type random_id:
+        """
+        return {
+            "id": random_id,
+            "api_key": apikey,
+            "method": method,
+            "args": kw
+        }
+
+    if not method:
+        raise Exception('please specify method name !')
+    id_ = random.randrange(1, 9999)
+    req = urllib2.Request('%s/_admin/api' % apihost,
+                      data=json.dumps(_build_data(id_)),
+                      headers={'content-type': 'text/plain'})
+    if format == FORMAT_PRETTY:
+        sys.stdout.write('calling %s to %s \n' % (req.get_data(), apihost))
+    ret = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+    raw_json = ret.read()
+    json_data = json.loads(raw_json)
+    id_ret = json_data['id']
+    _formatted_json = pprint.pformat(json_data)
+    if id_ret == id_:
+        if format == FORMAT_JSON:
+            sys.stdout.write(str(raw_json))
+        else:
+            sys.stdout.write('rhodecode returned:\n%s\n' % (_formatted_json))
+
+    else:
+        raise Exception('something went wrong. '
+                        'ID mismatch got %s, expected %s | %s' % (
+                                            id_ret, id_, _formatted_json))
+
+
+class RcConf(object):
+    """
+    RhodeCode config for API
+
+    conf = RcConf()
+    conf['key']
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, config_location=None, autoload=True, autocreate=False,
+                 config=None):
+        self._conf_name = CONFIG_NAME if not config_location else config_location
+        self._conf = {}
+        if autocreate:
+            self.make_config(config)
+        if autoload:
+            self._conf = self.load_config()
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
+        return self._conf[key]
+
+    def __nonzero__(self):
+        if self._conf:
+            return True
+        return False
+
+    def __eq__(self):
+        return self._conf.__eq__()
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return 'RcConf<%s>' % self._conf.__repr__()
+
+    def make_config(self, config):
+        """
+        Saves given config as a JSON dump in the _conf_name location
+
+        :param config:
+        :type config:
+        """
+        update = False
+        if os.path.exists(self._conf_name):
+            update = True
+        with open(self._conf_name, 'wb') as f:
+            json.dump(config, f, indent=4)
+
+        if update:
+            sys.stdout.write('Updated config in %s\n' % self._conf_name)
+        else:
+            sys.stdout.write('Created new config in %s\n' % self._conf_name)
+
+    def update_config(self, new_config):
+        """
+        Reads the JSON config updates it's values with new_config and
+        saves it back as JSON dump
+
+        :param new_config:
+        """
+        config = {}
+        try:
+            with open(self._conf_name, 'rb') as conf:
+                config = json.load(conf)
+        except IOError, e:
+            sys.stderr.write(str(e) + '\n')
+
+        config.update(new_config)
+        self.make_config(config)
+
+    def load_config(self):
+        """
+        Loads config from file and returns loaded JSON object
+        """
+        try:
+            with open(self._conf_name, 'rb') as conf:
+                return  json.load(conf)
+        except IOError, e:
+            #sys.stderr.write(str(e) + '\n')
+            pass