python request with authentication (access_token)

Question

I am trying to get an API query into python. The command line

curl --header "Authorization:access_token myToken" https://website.com/id

gives some json output. myToken is a hexadecimal variable that remains constant throughout. I would like to make this call from python so that I can loop through different ids and analyze the output. Any ideas? Before authentication was needed I have done that with urllib2. I have also taken a look at the requests module but couldn't figure out how to do that.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

The requests package has a very nice API for HTTP requests, adding a custom header works like this (source: official docs):

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get(
... 'https://website.com/id', headers={'Authorization': 'access_token myToken'})

If you don't want to use an external dependency, the same thing using urllib2 of the standard library looks like this (source: the missing manual):

>>> import urllib2
>>> response = urllib2.urlopen(
... urllib2.Request('https://website.com/id', headers={'Authorization': 'access_token myToken'})

Answer 2

I had the same problem when trying to use a token with Github.

The only syntax that has worked for me with Python 3 is:

import requests

myToken = '<token>'
myUrl = '<website>'
head = {'Authorization': 'token {}'.format(myToken)}
response = requests.get(myUrl, headers=head)

Answer 3

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get('https://website.com/id', headers={'Authorization': 'access_token myToken'})

If the above doesnt work , try this:

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get('https://api.buildkite.com/v2/organizations/orgName/pipelines/pipelineName/builds/1230', headers={ 'Authorization': 'Bearer <your_token>' })
>>> print response.json()

Answer 4

import requests

BASE_URL = 'http://localhost:8080/v3/getPlan'
token = "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImR"

headers = {'Authorization': "Bearer {}".format(token)}
auth_response = requests.get(BASE_URL, headers=headers)

print(auth_response.json())

Output :

{
"plans": [
    {
        "field": false,
        "description": "plan 12",
        "enabled": true
    }
  ]
}

Answer 5

Have you tried the uncurl package (https://github.com/spulec/uncurl)? You can install it via pip, pip install uncurl. Your curl request returns:

>>> uncurl "curl --header \"Authorization:access_token myToken\" https://website.com/id"

requests.get("https://website.com/id",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "access_token myToken"
    },
    cookies={},
)

Answer 6

I'll add a bit hint: it seems what you pass as the key value of a header depends on your authorization type, in my case that was PRIVATE-TOKEN

header = {'PRIVATE-TOKEN': 'my_token'}
response = requests.get(myUrl, headers=header)