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Thoughtspot: API calls to fetch metadata via Python

I'm trying to fetch metadata from thoughtspot. I am able to call the url using browser and fetch the data. But here I'm trying to achieve it via python program. According to thougthspot documentation. I have to enable trusted authentication and pass my secret key & username to obtain a token which I can use in my program.
https://developers.thoughtspot.com/docs/?pageid=api-auth-session
my username : username#username.com
secret key : secret-key
Below is my code:(generated by postman)
import requests
url = "https://<ThoughtSpot-host>/callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/session/auth/token?auth_token=secret-key&access_level=FULL&username=username#username.com"
payload={}
headers = {}
response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
print(response.text)
I'm getting Bad request error. Anyone here using thoughtspot over this issue. Appreciate your support very much.
Error I'm getting:
{"type":"Bad Request","description":"The server could not understand the request due to invalid syntax."}
I can fetch data by calling the api using a web-browser. Below url returns list of all meta-data objects. I want to achieve this using a python program (I have to authenticate first & call the below URL - Authentication step is not working for me when I tried to follow the documentation)
https://<ThoughtSpot-host>/callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/metadata/list

Did you try changing the url so that it includes the domain name?
Also post the error you are getting. And a screenshot of a working request would be great!

Python - Spotify API returning Error 400 "Malformed JSON"

Heyo. I'm trying to make a small application in my spare time that uses the Spotify API . I have managed to get my program to use oAuth 2 to let a user authorize my app to manipulate their Spotify, but I have run into a problem with a certain endpoint on the Spotify API.
The endpoint I am having trouble with is https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play (here's a link to their docs for the endpoint https://developer.spotify.com/console/put-play/). Whenever I try to make a put request to the endpoint I receive a 400 status code with the message "Malformed json" I get this message even when I copy/paste their own json from the docs, so I don't think it's a problem with how I am formatting my json, besides I have used json before to call other endpoints and they haven't had a problem with my formatting on those calls.
Here is my code:
headers = {"Authorization":"Bearer {}".format(access_token)}
url = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play'
payload = {"context_uri": "spotify:album:5ht7ItJgpBH7W6vJ5BqpPr"}
r = requests.put(url, headers=headers, data=payload)
print(r)
print(r.text)
To clarify, access_token is the access token that I have gotten from their authorization process, and I am using python-requests to make the http requests (Here is the docs for that: https://requests.kennethreitz.org/en/master/)
I am wondering if the problem is due to the fact that Spotify uses colons int their track IDs and colons are also used in JSON? I saw in another thread on here that I should try to add "Content-Type":"application/json" to my headers but that didn't change the outcome at all.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and if you need any more info please let me know. Thank you!

If your payload is a dict use json kwargs in requests lib. data works for string payload. Here you go:
r = requests.put(url, headers=headers, json=payload)

403 (Forbidden) error when using Fortnite Tracker api with urllib.request

I am attempting to get user statistics from the Fortnite tracker api.
I have an api key and am using the correct url as indicated in the documentation
Template url:
https://api.fortnitetracker.com/v1/profile/{platform}/{epic-nickname}
Desired url:
https://api.fortnitetracker.com/v1/profile/pc/xantium0
If I use this link in browser I get {"message":"No API key found in request"} (as I have not passed the API key) so the link should be correct. Also if I do not pass the api key with urllib then I still get a 403 error.
I have checked out how to pass a header in a request: How do I set headers using python's urllib?
and so far have this code:
import urllib.request as ur
request = ur.Request('https://api.fortnitetracker.com/v1/profile/pc/xantium0', headers={'TRN-Api-Key' : 'xxx'})
response = ur.urlopen(request)
print(response.read())
When run I get this error:
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
403 checks out as:
HTTP 403 is a standard HTTP status code communicated to clients by an HTTP server to indicate that the server understood the request, but will not fulfill it. There are a number of sub-status error codes that provide a more specific reason for responding with the 403 status code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403
The response is the same if I don't pass the api key in the header.
I can only think of three reasons this code is not working:
I have passed the wrong header name (i.e. it's not TRN-Api-Key)
My code is incorrect and I am not actually passing a header to the server
I have been banned
My problem is that I think my code is correct:
From the documentation:
urllib.request.Request(url, data=None, headers={}, origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False, method=None)
I have passed the url and I have passed the headers (wihout confusing with the data arguement). The api documentation also mentions it should be passed in the headers.
I am also quite sure I need to use the TRN-Api-Key as it is shown in the api documentation:
TRN-Api-Key: xxx
Also in this question (using Ruby):
header = {
key: "TRN-Api-Key: Somelong-api-key-here"
}
Or I have been banned (this is possible although I got the key 15 minutes ago) is there a way to check? Would this error be returned?
What is preventing me from getting the user statistics?

Try using requests, a pythonic, fast and widely used module.
import requests
url = 'https://api.fortnitetracker.com/v1/profile/pc/xantium0'
headers = {
'TRN-Api-Key' : 'xxx'
}
response = requests(url, headers=headers)
print('Requests was successful:', response.ok)
print(response.text)
If it doesn't work you can visit the url with your browser, then check the requests:
in Firefox press Cntrl+Shift+E, in Chrome Cntrl+E (or Inspect with Cntrl+Shift+I and then go to Network). Press on "https://api.fortnitetracker.com/v1/profile/pc/xantium0" and change the headers. On Firefox there's the button Modify and resend. Check the response and eventually, try to change the header api key name.
Hope this helps, let me know.

failed API call - error 400

I've written a simple API call using requests and am getting an error 400 on executing the call. Can someone please tell me where I am going wrong? Thanks for the help. Here's the code i wrote -
import requests
params={
'api_key':'gozbsSP1fxqNSS5YjcFM7qcjjKch1tBB',
'api_secret':'HklHJCzfO87YyIC9DudGArVKJtioEhbO',
'image_url':'http://picz.in/data/media/7/study-in-canada-students.jpg'
}
r = requests.post(url='https://api-
us.faceplusplus.com/facepp/v3/detect',data=params)
print(r)

400 error code basically means it's a bad request. So it can be that you provided the wrong params for the api, or the api_key or api_secret is not correct.
Check the documentation of the API whether you are sending all the required params are there or not. If so check your secret keys and make sure it's the correct one.
Remeber to never post you API Keys on public forums like SO...

400 means its a bad request: the request you made is not what the server wanted.
(invalid arguments, wrong payload data, etc)
More info on 400 errors here:
https://airbrake.io/blog/http-errors/400-bad-request
The 400 Bad Request Error is an HTTP response status code that indicates that the server was unable to process the request sent by the client due to invalid syntax
Sometimes the response object will include information on why the request failed, but that's not always the case.

Requests get method giving 401 with auth

I am trying to get a response from an internal url which I can access through my laptop using a web-browser.
s = requests.Session()
r = s.get(url_1, auth=auth, verify=False)
print r.text
the reply i get is: 401 - unauthorized.

It's obviously going to be difficult to debug an HTTP 401 Unauthorized as we don't have access to the internal URL. Your code looks correct to me so I'm assuming this is a real 401 Unauthorized which means the request has incorrect authentication credentials. My advice would be to make sure you have reviewed the Python Requests docs on authentication and consider that your request is likely going through a proxy so the Requests docs on proxy config might be helpful.