I've been trying to use the API of the website Idealista (https://www.idealista.com/) to retrieve information of real estate data.
Since I'm not familiarized with OAuth2 I haven't been able to obtain the token so far. I have just been provided with the api key, the secret and some basic info of how to mount the http request.
I would appreciate an example (preferably in Python) of the functioning of this API, or else some more generic info about dealing with OAuth2 and Python.
After some days of research I came up with a basic python code to retrieve real estate data from the Idealista API.
def get_oauth_token():
http_obj = Http()
url = "https://api.idealista.com/oauth/token"
apikey= urllib.parse.quote_plus('Provided_API_key')
secret= urllib.parse.quote_plus('Provided_API_secret')
auth = base64.encode(apikey + ':' + secret)
body = {'grant_type':'client_credentials'}
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8','Authorization' : 'Basic ' + auth}
resp, content = http_obj.request(url,method='POST',headers=headers, body=urllib.parse.urlencode(body))
return content
This function would return a JSON with the OAuth2 token and the session time in seconds. Afterwards, to query the API, it would be as simple as:
def search_api(token):
http_obj = Http()
url = "http://api.idealista.com/3.5/es/search?center=40.42938099999995,-3.7097526269835726&country=es&maxItems=50&numPage=1&distance=452&propertyType=bedrooms&operation=rent"
headers = {'Authorization' : 'Bearer ' + token}
resp, content = http_obj.request(url,method='POST',headers=headers)
return content
This time the we would find in the content var the data we were looking for, again as a JSON.