Python how to make a curl request with username/password

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Trying to hit an api which returns a json. Documentation says to hit it in this fashion:

curl --user username:password "https://api.company.com/dummyapi.json"

Works like a champ from the command line and in PHP. I'm new to Python. How do I do mimic this in Python? I've tried requests and subprocess.call but I keep getting a bad request response from the server saying that credentials were not provided.

What have you tried in python? What code? Requests has a section in the docs on authentication — Andy
– Andy ♦, Commented Jan 5, 2018 at 16:59
You nailed it Andy. Hadn't seen that documentation. Thank you. — Chris Utter
– Chris Utter, Commented Jan 5, 2018 at 17:04

little-dude · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-26 21:44:09Z

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To do what curl does, in python you can use requests. First of all you have to install it :

pip install requests

Then sending an http request is as easy as :

from requests import get
response = get('https://api.company.com/dummyapi.json', auth=('user', 'pass'))

Now response holds all information returned from that api. Use the documentation for more info, and in particular the section about authentication.

edited Jan 26, 2018 at 21:44

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