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Python Product Tag Update using Shopify API - 400 Error - Product :Required Parameter Missing Or Invalid

Just built my first Shopify store and wanted to use python and API to bulk-update product tags on all our products.
However, I've run into a snag on my PUT call. I keep getting a 400 Response with the message '{"errors":{"product":"Required parameter missing or invalid"}}'.
I've seen other people with similar issues on here but none of their solutions seem to be working for me.
Has anyone else run into this problem that can help me figure it out?
Here are some screenshots of my code, a printout of the payload, and the error in the response.
Code, Payload and Response:
I can successfully get the product info using the API and was originally sending the entire JSON payload that was returned just updated it with my product tags and sent it back through the API.
To narrow potential pain points, I'm keeping it simple now and just including "id" and "tags" in the payload but still get the same error.

We figured it out! It turns out that when we initially created the store we used a domain store name that was misspelled so we created a new domain store name with the correct spelling. However, the original domain store name was not deleted (not even sure it can be), and even though the new domain store name forwards to the original one and allows for GET requests, for PUT requests we had to use the original misspelled domain store name and the PUTs work fine.
I figured this out by using fiddler to capture a manual product update via the Shopify website to see what the payload looked like and that's why I noticed the store URL was different than the one we were using.
Hope this helps someone with a similar issue!

Recieving Null response from visitorsession variable during deployment salesIq zo

I am a little baffled with the issue I am facing with Zobot. I have developed a Zobot in which I am using visitorsession to store some values and reuse them later. It works great in Zoho Developer environment, we used Deluge scripts option to do the development.
But when I deploy it using embed script on my website, the visitorsession part of the code is returning null. I searched around and found not a single person facing this issue or posting it, I am really surprised its happening only to me. Can someone please suggest what I should do. I have explained what I am facing below:
I am storing values like this
storeResponse2 = zoho.salesiq.visitorsession.set(portal_name,{"a":"b"});
I am getting the values like this
zoho.salesiq.visitorsession.get(portal_name,"a").get("data").get("a");
It is working great in Zobot Development environment in the Preview section, but when I go to my website where I put the embed, I am getting null.
In both environments, the response I get when I do the set is the same. Its not throwing any error, it is giving me valid response. The response I am getting when I set, in both environments is:
{"url":"/api/v2/bigtalk/visitorsessions","object":"session","data":{"a":"b"}}
But when I do a get, in Zoho environment I get correct value, in production I get null
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If this happens, it probably means that you are setting and getting the data from visitorsession in the same execution.
It doesn't work that way. It should be set in one execution and get in further executions (replies). And this won't be a problem anyway, as in the same execution, you'll have the data available already.

Get spotify currently playing track

EDIT : Let's try to clarify all this.
I'm writing a python script, and I want it to tell me the song that Spotify is currently playing.
I've tried looking for libraries that could help me but didn't find any that are still maintained and working.
I've also looked through Spotify's web API, but it does not provide any way to get that information.
The only potential solution I found would be to grab the title of my Spotify (desktop app) window. But I didn't manage to do that so far.
So basically, what I'm asking is whether anyone knows :
How to apply the method I'm already trying to use (get the window's title from a program), either in pure python or using an intermediary shell script.
OR
Any other way to extract that information from Spotify's desktop app or web client.
Original post :
I'm fiddling with the idea of a python status bar for a linux environment, nothing fancy, just a script tailored to my own usage. What I'm trying to do right now is to display the currently playing track from spotify (namely, the artist and title).
There does not seem to be anything like that in their official web API. I haven't found any third party library that would do that either. Most libraries I found are either deprecated since spotify released their current API, or they are based on said API which does not do what I want.
I've also read a bunch of similar question in here, most of which had no answers, or a deprecated solution.
I thought about grabbing the window title, since it does diplay the information I need. But not only does that seem really convoluted, I also have difficulties making this happen. I was trying to get it by running a combination of the linux commands xdotools and xprop inside my script.
It's worth mentionning that since I'm already using the psutil lib for other informations, I already have access to spotify's PID.
Any idea how I could do that ?
And in case my method was the only one you can think of, any idea how to actually make it work ?
Your help will be appreciated.

The Spotify client on Linux implements a D-Bus interface called MPRIS - Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification.
http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/index.html
You could access the title (and other metadata) from python like this:
import dbus
session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
spotify_bus = session_bus.get_object("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify",
"/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2")
spotify_properties = dbus.Interface(spotify_bus,
"org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
metadata = spotify_properties.Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", "Metadata")
# The property Metadata behaves like a python dict
for key, value in metadata.items():
print(key, value)
# To just print the title
print(metadata['xesam:title'])

For windows:
The library can be found at github: https://github.com/XanderMJ/spotilib. Keep in mind that this is still work in progress.
Just copy the file and place it in your Python/Lib directory.
import spotilib
spotilib.artist() #returns the artist of the current playing song
spotilib.song() #returns the song title of the current playing song
spotilib.artist() returns only the first artist. I started working on an other library spotimeta.py to solve this issue. However, this is not working at 100% yet.
import spotimeta
spotimeta.artists() #returns a list of all the collaborating artists of the track
If an error occurs, spotimeta.artists() will return only the first artist (found with spotilib.artist())

JIRA API components name is not valid

I am currently attempting to create an issue within JIRA via API and have been running across an issue that I have no clue to fix.
I used a curl command to find the components and I got the following:
"components":[{"self":"https://jira-server/rest/api/2/component/18458","id":"18458","name":"JIRA","description":"#"},{"self":"https://jira-server/rest/api/2/component/18463","id":"18463","name":"JIRA"}]
when I run my script by using python-JIRA API with the following command:
new_issue = jira.create_issue(project='IT', summary='New issue from jira-python', description='look here', issuetype={'name': 'Task'}, components = [{'name': "JIRA"}])
I get the following error message:
response text = {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"components":"Component name 'JIRA' is not valid"}}
Can anyone tell me what exactly I am doing wrong? I am 100% "JIRA" is a component since I manually created a test issue and selected "JIRA" as a component.

You have to make sure the Component you're linking to belongs to the same Jira Project that your issue is being created under

I believe your issue might be that you have too many brackets, components = [{'name': "JIRA"}] should be components = {'name': "JIRA"}
This is what I think your error is trying to tell you too when it says "errorMessages":[]....., the api only expects one set of brackets and passing it a set with information enclosed in another pair sets it off.
However I have not tried this solution but I do know it works when using issuetype = {'name' : 'Bug'}
Alternatively you probably don't even need the components part, it should create the issue with the other items given, if it doesn't its probably another field that only task requires. If you try to create an epic you need customfield_10814 to be filled with a description and for bug you need to fill the found at location.

The syntax is correct. components should be a list.
Did you create 'JIRA' as a component in the same project?
Make sure the component name is available for that project. If you go to any ticket in the same project, the 'dropdown' in the component section should list all the available components.

Create a component for 'JIRA' . From error it seems you project doesn't have any value called 'JIRA' .
Creation of value 'JIRA' for component will solve the problem

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: moz-nullprincipal

I am having a problem posting map data to postgis via apache2 --> geoserver-->OpenLayers 12.04.
I am receiving data from geoserver just fine but unable to post new data back.
The post error is:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: moz-nullprincipal:
#!/usr/bin/env python
-^
What I get for a response is the text of the proxy.cgi script provided by OpenLayers. I have edited this script to include all sources found in the xml formed by the request to make sure that I have included all urls.
I have Python, Python2 and Python2.7 available but using any of these produces the same result. All includes appear to be loading correctly.
I have read numerous posts related to this issue but none have provided a solution. I used to be able to bypass the same domain issue by creating an index.html outside the apache-tomcat directory that would define an iframe that would call my actual site.html residing in /geoserver/www. This no longer appears to work hence my proxy problem. This project is on hold until this issue is solved.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Larry

I found another way to do it. Rather than using the OpenLayers proxy I found this blog:
http://bikerjared.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/ubuntu-12-04-mod-proxy-install-and-configuration/
that provides a very good tutorial on using an Apache2 proxy that fixed my problem nicely.