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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.
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To do so use the following syntax: curl --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" https://www.domain.com . “USERNAME” must be replaced with your actual username in quotes.
To use basic authentication, use the cURL --user option followed by your company name and user name as the value. cURL will then prompt you for your password.
To make a GET request using Curl, run the curl command followed by the target URL. Curl automatically selects the HTTP GET request method unless you use the -X, --request, or -d command-line option. The target URL is passed as the first command-line option.
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.
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