Visit the pybitshares website for in depth documentation on this Python library.
$ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev python-dev python3-dev python3-pip
$ pip3 install bitshares
$ git clone https://github.com/xeroc/python-bitshares/
$ cd python-bitshares
$ python3 setup.py install --user
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade