March 29, 2012
Python Requests hooks
By AkH, 1 month, 3 weeks ago, modified March 29, 2012
Python requests is the de facto HTTP package for Python, nice API, wonderful documentation.
I had the need to sign my requests and to change the header after the request was built, here is hooks, simply call a function pre_request and your are done:
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def auth_sign(req):
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user_id = '4f47a5f21aebcedff3001234'
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secret_key = 'C21LHQ5R4RVO2U2UMTEZ'
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timestamp = str(int(time.mktime(time.gmtime())))
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string_to_sign = req.method + '\n' + user_id + '\n' + timestamp + '\n' + req.path_url + '\n' + req._enc_datasign = base64.b64encode(hmac.new(secret_key, string_to_sign, hashlib.sha256).digest())
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headers = {'X-User-ID':user_id, 'X-Expires':timestamp, 'X-Signature':sign}
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req.headers.update(headers)
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payload = {'name':'Test event', 'description':'Description blabla', 'category':'1'}
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r = requests.post(API_URL + 'event', data=payload, hooks={'pre_request':auth_sign})
And remember to use httpie Curl for human which is using requests
