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diegueus9
diegueus9

Reputation: 31522

Python code like curl

in curl i do this:

curl -u email:password http://api.foursquare.com/v1/venue.json?vid=2393749

How i can do this same thing in python?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 11607

Answers (5)

Alexandr
Alexandr

Reputation: 391

if use human_curl you can write some code

import human_curl as hurl

r = hurl.get('http://api.foursquare.com/v1/venue.json?vid=2393749', auth=('email','password'))

Json data in r.content

Upvotes: 1

diegueus9
diegueus9

Reputation: 31522

"The problem could be that the Python libraries, per HTTP-Standard, first send an unauthenticated request, and then only if it's answered with a 401 retry, are the correct credentials sent. If the Foursquare servers don't do "totally standard authentication" then the libraries won't work.

Try using headers to do authentication:"

taked from Python urllib2 Basic Auth Problem

import urllib2
import base64

req = urllib2.Request('http://api.foursquare.com/v1/venue.json?vid=%s' % self.venue_id)
req.add_header('Authorization: Basic ',base64.b64encode('email:password'))
res = urllib2.urlopen(req)

Upvotes: 4

mjhm
mjhm

Reputation: 16685

I'm more comfortable running the command line curl through subprocess. This avoids all of the potential version matching headaches of python, pycurl, and libcurl. The observation that pycurl hasn't been touched in 2 years, and is only listed as suppported through Python 2.5, made me wary. -- John

   import subprocess

   def curl(*args):
        curl_path = '/usr/bin/curl'
        curl_list = [curl_path]
        for arg in args:
            curl_list.append(arg)
        curl_result = subprocess.Popen(
                     curl_list,
                     stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                     stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
        return curl_result

    answer = curl('-u', 'email:password', 'http://api.foursquare.com/v1/venue.json?vid=2393749')

Upvotes: 3

pyfunc
pyfunc

Reputation: 66709

Use pycurl

There is a discussion on SO for tutorials

A typical example:

import sys
import pycurl

class ContentCallback:
        def __init__(self):
                self.contents = ''

        def content_callback(self, buf):
                self.contents = self.contents + buf

t = ContentCallback()
curlObj = pycurl.Curl()
curlObj.setopt(curlObj.URL, 'http://www.google.com')
curlObj.setopt(curlObj.WRITEFUNCTION, t.content_callback)
curlObj.perform()
curlObj.close()
print t.contents

Upvotes: 0

Sam Dolan
Sam Dolan

Reputation: 32532

Here's the equivalent in pycurl:

import pycurl
from StringIO import StringIO

response_buffer = StringIO()
curl = pycurl.Curl()

curl.setopt(curl.URL, "http://api.foursquare.com/v1/venue.json?vid=2393749")

curl.setopt(curl.USERPWD, '%s:%s' % ('youruser', 'yourpassword'))

curl.setopt(curl.WRITEFUNCTION, response_buffer.write)

curl.perform()
curl.close()

response_value = response_buffer.getvalue()

Upvotes: 6

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