Pulling token from JSON responce in Python

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I am learning Python and am working with the API for MediaFire and trying to just automate some simple processes. But I am running into a bit of confusion after I pass the POST to get the Session Token. The problem is that I am not sure how to extract the token from the response. Here is the call to get the session token:

import hashlib
import time
import urllib.request

token = hashlib.sha1()
token.update("calvinrock0406@gmail.comheaven3610255k592k2di4u9uok3e8u9pkfepjfoc809kfutv5z".encode('utf-8'))
token_dig = token.hexdigest()

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://www.mediafire.com/api/user/get_session_token.php?application_id=36102&signature=" + token_dig + "&[email protected]&password=heaven&token_version=2&response_format=json") as response:
    html = response.read()

And here is the responce I get back from the call:

b'{"response":{"action":"user\\/get_session_token","session_token":"618679cd5046c48fface93dee366a1a07eacfefc5bce88173d5118bb3f128f539602dc54f6d667825a376bc2f86b41a5b1cbe178cd45dfcb4ddfc8e9652f7c529db233181655ec42","secret_key":"774329384","time":"1454700043.4884","ekey":"a84adbba31f9ae8ef717486616a97c63","pkey":"b4dfdc307d","result":"Success","current_api_version":"1.5"}}'

Any help for the noob would be greatly appreciated

midori · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-05 20:13:26Z

6

I would recommend using requests instead of urllib, and use json() to work with the response:

import json
import hashlib
import requests

token = hashlib.sha1()
token.update("calvinrock0406@gmail.comheaven3610255k592k2di4u9uok3e8u9pkfepjfoc809kfutv5z".encode('utf-8'))
token_dig = token.hexdigest()

response = requests.get("https://www.mediafire.com/api/user/get_session_token.php?application_id=36102&signature=" + token_dig + "&[email protected]&password=heaven&token_version=2&response_format=json")

json_response = response.json()
print json_response["response"]["session_token"]

edited Feb 5, 2016 at 20:13

answered Feb 5, 2016 at 19:24

midori

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3 Comments

Rob Hood Over a year ago

I put it and gave it a test run and ran into an error, do I need to set a argument to convert to a string? Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\rhood\Documents\test.py", line 16, in <module> json_response = json.loads(html) File "C:\Users\rhood\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\json_init_.py", line 312, in loads s.__class__.__name__)) TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

midori Over a year ago

loads takes a string as an input

kichik Over a year ago

You can simplify further by using response.json() instead of json.loads(response.text)

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