How do I send authenticated https requests using Python?

Question

What is the equivalent Python to the following curl command?

curl https://www.streak.com/api/v1/boxes/{Keyhere}/  -u passwordhere:

I tried this but I get 400 errors:

requests.get('https://www.streak.com/api/v1/boxes/{Key}/threads -u PASSWORD:', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('USER', 'pass'))

Answer 1

This type of authentication is very common and the requests documentation covers it.

requests.get('https://www.streak.com/api/v1/boxes/{Key}/threads', auth=(YOUR_API_KEY, ''))

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You need to remove the -u PASSWORD: from your destination.

An alternative is to use the streak_client package on PiPY or GitHub