zomato api request with python requests library

Question

Zomato which is one of the most popular restaurant search engines provides free api service...

If curl is used in api request, works perfectly;

curl -X GET --header "Accept: application/json" --header "user_key: MY_API_KEY_HERE" "https://developers.zomato.com/api/v2.1/geocode?lat=41.10867962215988&lon=29.01834726333618"

But Python's requests library is used, it doesn't work. When I execute the code below;

import requests
r = requests.get("https://developers.zomato.com/api/v2.1/geocode?lat=41.10867962215988&lon=29.01834726333618", headers={"user_key": "MY_API_KEY_HERE", "Accept": "application/json"});

interpreter returns the error below;

requests.exceptions.ProxyError: Cannot connect to proxy. Socket error: Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden.

Several attempts made via pyCurl library but unfortunately result is the same; 403 Forbidden

How can I tackle this issue?

Answer 1

I also had problems using Zomato API's. I was getting 500 Server Error

Adding User Agent info in headers solved my problem.

import requests
from pprint import pprint

locationUrlFromLatLong = "https://developers.zomato.com/api/v2.1/cities?lat=28&lon=77"
header = {"User-agent": "curl/7.43.0", "Accept": "application/json", "user_key": "YOUR_API_USER_KEY"}

response = requests.get(locationUrlFromLatLong, headers=header)

pprint(response.json())