MissingSchema - Invalid URL Error with Requests module

Question

Trying to get data from the eBay API using GetItem. But requests isn't reading or getting the URL properly, any ideas? Getting this error:

requests.exceptions.MissingSchema: Invalid URL '<urllib.request.Request object at 0x00E86210>': No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http://<urllib.request.Request object at 0x00E86210>?

I swear I had this code working before but now it's not, so I'm not sure why.

My code:

from urllib import request as urllib
import requests

url = 'https://api.ebay.com/ws/api.dll'

data = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetItemRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<RequesterCredentials>
<eBayAuthToken>my-auth-token</eBayAuthToken>
</RequesterCredentials>
<ItemID>any-item-id</ItemID>
</GetItemRequest>'''

headers = {
    'Content-Type' : 'text/xml',
    'X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL' : 719,
    'X-EBAY-API-DEV-NAME' : 'dev-name',
    'X-EBAY-API-APP-NAME' : 'app-name',
    'X-EBAY-API-CERT-NAME' : 'cert-name',
    'X-EBAY-API-SITEID' : 3,
    'X-EBAY-API-CALL-NAME' : 'GetItem',
}

req = urllib.Request(url, data, headers)
resp = requests.get(req)
content = resp.read()

print(content)

Thank you in advance. Any good reading material for urllib would be great, too.

Answer 1

You are mixing the urllib and the requests library. They are different libraries that can both do HTTP-requests in Python. I'd suggest you use only the requests library.

Remove the line req = urllib.Request(url, data, headers) and replace the resp = ... line with:

r = requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)

Print the response body like this:

print(r.text)

Check out the Requests Quickstart here for more examples: https://2.python-requests.org//en/master/user/quickstart/