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

User · Accepted Answer

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'})

User · Answer

gt  gt  gt  import requests  gt  gt  gt  response   requests get  https   website com id   headers   Authorization    access token myToken      If the above doesnt work   try this    gt  gt  gt  import requests  gt  gt  gt  response   requests get  https   api buildkite com v2 organizations orgName pipelines pipelineName builds 1230   headers    Authorization    Bearer  lt your token gt       gt  gt  gt  print response json

User · Answer

Have you tried the uncurl package  https   github com spulec uncurl   You can install it via pip  pip install uncurl  Your curl request returns    gt  gt  gt  uncurl  curl --header   Authorization access token myToken   https   website com id   requests get  https   website com id       headers            Authorization    access token myToken             cookies

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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     lt token gt   myUrl     lt website gt   head     Authorization    token     format myToken   response   requests get myUrl  headers head

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