Python how to make a curl request with username/password

Question

Trying to hit an api which returns a json. Documentation says to hit it in this fashion:

curl --user username:password "https://api.company.com/dummyapi.json"

Works like a champ from the command line and in PHP. I'm new to Python. How do I do mimic this in Python? I've tried requests and subprocess.call but I keep getting a bad request response from the server saying that credentials were not provided.

Answer 1

To do what curl does, in python you can use requests. First of all you have to install it :

pip install requests 

Then sending an http request is as easy as :

from requests import get
response = get('https://api.company.com/dummyapi.json', auth=('user', 'pass'))

Now response holds all information returned from that api. Use the documentation for more info, and in particular the section about authentication.