[python] python request with authentication (access_token)

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.

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)

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)

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={},
)

>>> 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()