Consuming Web APIs with Python Talk

Issac Kelly - July 30th 2011 - PyOhio

This is all example code for working with the Github API. I use this for several reasons.

1. It's very well documented.
2. Constantly uses JSON, (so skips Accept, and Content-Type headers)
3. Has both Anonymous and Authenticated support via Basic Auth (over https)

To set it up, put a .gitconfig in your home directory with your github settings

[github]
user=issackelly
password=maipass

01_GET.py

This is an example anonymous GET request with the stdlib. Gets all public gists

02_POST.py

An example anonymous POST request with the stdlib. Makes an anonymous gist

03_Authenticated_GET.py

Authenticate on the api with the stdlib, and GET your own gists.

04_requests_Authenticated_GET.py

This is the exact same as #3, except it uses kennethreitz's requests Library.

05_client_Authenticated_GET.py

This is the same as #3 and #4, but it uses the GithubClient class that we write in the GithubClient.py file.

GithubClient.py

Our really basic GithubClient is a Github Specific wrapper around the requests library.

06_Client_POST.py

This is a rehash of 02, but it's authenticated, and uses our GithubClient.