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Calling REST API with an API key using the requests package in Python

What should the python code to call the REST API below using the requests package? I do not know how to pass the "apikey" 

curl -X POST -u "apikey":"1234abcd" -H "Accept: application/json" -F "file=@{input_file}" https://api_url

Thank you for your help.

Solution

  • Your curl command is like code. When you do not know what it supports, you can curl --help or use curl ... --trace-ascii 1.txt to figure out the process.

    from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import requests

url = 'https://api_url'
headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'}
auth = HTTPBasicAuth('apikey', '1234abcd')
files = {'file': open('filename', 'rb')}

req = requests.get(url, headers=headers, auth=auth, files=files)