Converting curl command to Python request

Question

The curl command that I have that works properly is -

curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic <base64userpass>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://<host>/bamboo/rest/api/latest/result/<plankey>.json?expand=results.result&os_authType=basic"

In Python, this is what I currently have -

   headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic <base64userpass>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
   datapoints = {'expand': 'results.result', 'os_authType': 'basic'}
   url = "http://<host>/bamboo/rest/api/latest/result/<plankey>.json"
   r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, data=datapoints)

The response I get when using the Python request is <Response [403]>, but when using curl I get back the expected data.

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

you need params= instead of data=

furas
– furas

2016-12-06 01:10:10 +00:00
Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 1:10 — furas
– furas, Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 1:10

Dekel · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-06 01:31:45Z

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You should use the auth option of requests to do basic authentication. There are more headers that the CURL command-line handle for you (and requests will not handle them unless you use the auth):

>>> from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
>>> requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass'))

Or just use:

>>> requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))

(Change the URL and everything).

Also note that requests should get the params= (and not data=).

edited Dec 6, 2016 at 1:31

answered Dec 6, 2016 at 1:08

Dekel

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5 Comments

George Over a year ago

The only concern that I have with this is that the only value that I currently have is that base64 encoded value (lets say it is CmUnMm9dOkJGhaUIwBaMlNTYyJh=), and not the user/pass, would it be possible to use this method still?

Dekel Over a year ago

Are you sure this is the value?

George Over a year ago

I just made up a series of numbers in that example, but yes I am sure that the series of numbers I am actually using is the username / password. It has worked for other scripts in the system. I suppose I could just decode it, but I was hoping that it would work without me having to have a password in plaintext inside of the script.

Dekel Over a year ago

basically this string is just base64_encode(username:password) so what you can do is base64_decode on that string to get the username and password.

Tri Over a year ago

This answers also work for my case which is convert HTTPie command to Python Requests, thanks Man :)

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