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Kevin Nash
Kevin Nash

Reputation: 1561

Issue pulling data from API - (Paylocity)

I am trying to fetch data from API from a tool called Paylocity.

I have managed to generate the access token and trying to connect to their API as below

client_id = client_id
client_secret = client_secret
company_id = company_id
prod_auth_url = 'https://apisandbox.paylocity.com/IdentityServer/connect/token'
body_params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'grant_type': 'client_credentials','scope':'WebLinkAPI'})

# Requests can use auth= for basic authentication
auth_response = requests.post(prod_auth_url,auth=(client_id, client_secret), data=urllib.parse.urlencode(body_params))
response = json.loads(auth_response.content)
api_call_headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + response['access']}

This however returns an error

TypeError: not a valid non-string sequence or mapping object

Upvotes: 1

Views: 297

Answers (2)

Kevin Nash
Kevin Nash

Reputation: 1561

Figured out by changing the ** auth_response** variable as below

auth_response = requests.post(prod_auth_url,auth=(client_id, client_secret), data=body_params)
response = json.loads(auth_response.text)

Upvotes: 2

phil0x2e
phil0x2e

Reputation: 73

auth_response.content gives you a byte string. Which likely causes the error. Use auth_response.text.

Better even: You don't need json.loads() here. Just do:

response = auth_response.json()

Upvotes: 0

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