Windows live api for python - python

I have read documentation about Windows Live API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx
But how can I retrieve contacts from hotmail with python ?
Is there any example ?

Your program will first need to obtain "delegated authentication", for which the Python samples are here.
After that, the interface is REST-like: you only need to HTTP GET the appropriate URI (per the docs, that's '/LiveContacts/contacts' to retrieve all contacts. The REST Schema is documented here. You can make an HTTP GET request in Python with such standard library modules as urllib and urllib2, though the lower-level httplib module is also fine.

For those who are searching for the download link for the library
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/2/a/62adfe67-6fee-487f-9c3e-911ce5d0bc9d/webauth-python-1.2.tar.gz

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Package to build custom client to consume an API in Python based on a configuration file?

I am new to working with APIs in general and am writing code in python that needs to consume/interact with an API someone else has set up. I was wondering if there is any package out there that would build some sort of custom client class to interact with an API given a file outlining the API in some way (like a json or something where each available endpoint and http verb could be outlined in terms of stuff like allowed payload json schema for posts, general params allowed and their types, expected response json schema, the header key/value for a business verb, etc.). It would be helpful if I could have one master file outlining the endpoints available and then some package uses that to generate a client class we can use to consume the API as described.
In my googling most API packages I have found in python are much more focused on the generation of APIs but this isn't what I want.
Basically I believe you are looking for the built in requests package.
response = requests.get(f'{base_url}{endpoint}',
params={'foo': self.bar,
'foo_2':self.bar_2},
headers={'X-Api-Key': secret}
)
And from here, you can build you own class, pass it to a dataframe or whatever.
In the requests package is basically everything you need. Status handling, exception handling everything you need.
Please check the docs.
https://pypi.org/project/requests/

Generate the AWS HTTP signature from boto3

I am working with the AWS Transcribe streaming service that boto3 does not support yet, so to make HTTP/2 requests, I need to manually setup the authorization header with the "AWS Signature Version 4"
I've found some example implementation, but I was hoping to just call whatever function boto3/botocore have implemented using the same configuration object.
Something like
session = boto3.Session(...)
auth = session.generate_signature('POST', '/stream-transcription', ...)
Any pointers in that direction?
Contrary to the AWS SDKs for most other programming languages, boto3/botocore don't offer the functionality to sign arbitrary requests using "AWS Signature Version 4" yet. However there is at least already an open feature request for that: https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/1784
In this feature request, existing alternatives are discussed as well. One is the third-party Python library aws-requests-auth, which provides a thin wrapper around botocore and requests to sign HTTP-requests. That looks like the following:
import requests
from aws_requests_auth.boto_utils import BotoAWSRequestsAuth
auth = BotoAWSRequestsAuth(aws_host="your-service.domain.tld",
aws_region="us-east-1",
aws_service="execute-api")
response = requests.get("https://your-service.domain.tld",
auth=auth)
Another alternative presented in the feature request is to implement the necessary glue-code on your own, as shown in the following gist: https://gist.github.com/rhboyd/1e01190a6b27ca4ba817bf272d5a5f9a.
Did you check this SDK? Seems very recent but might do what you need.
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-transcribe-streaming-sdk/tree/master
It looks like it handles the signing: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-transcribe-streaming-sdk/blob/master/amazon_transcribe/signer.py
I have not tested this, but you can likely accomplish this by following along with with this SigV4 unit test:
https://github.com/boto/botocore/blob/master/tests/unit/test_auth_sigv4.py
Note, this constructs a request using the botocore.awsrequest.AWSRequest helper. You'll likely need to dig around to figure out how to send the actual HTTP request (perhaps with httpsession.py)

How to use the PivotalTracker API with Python 2.7

I am trying to use the PivotalTracker API to get all the stories from an epic. I am very lost on where to begin. I looked at the samples, but they are using cURL, not python. I also stumbled upon the pytracker module but it is 4 years old and is obsolete as PivotalTracker has switched over from XML to JSON during that time. Again I'm very lost on where to start, but appreciate any guidance you have to offer, thanks!
So I ended up installing the Requests module for Python and managed to make the cURL requests through that. Here is how to do it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25797678/1536101
You can use the pytracker wrapper library: https://code.google.com/p/pytracker/
Or, you would directly use urllib to call Pivotal Tracker's restful APIs: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html

puppet cert list all using api/python?

I need to get the list of all puppet nodes (basically output of puppet cert list --all). What is the best way to do the same using python (without using exec or similar things on the command itself) in puppet 2.6.18
puppet 2.7.0 onwards has HTTP API to achieve the same.
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/rest_api.html#certificate-request
GET /{environment}/certificate_statuses/no_key
puppetdb also one api but am not sure if the env am working with has puppetdb. (checking on that).
Is there anything like ansible.runner for puppet?
Any other thoughts?
You first need to configure access to the REST API in auth.conf. Then you can use the built-in urllib2 or external requests library to query the API with the appropriate SSL client certificate for authentication.
If you don't want to deal with SSL client certificates, you can use allow_ip in auth.conf. I'd only do that if you're not interested in the more sensitive areas of the API (like requesting a catalog).
I wrote a Python wrapper around the Puppet REST API and posted it on GitHub: pypuppet.
For example,
>>> import puppet
>>> p = puppet.Puppet()
>>> print p.certificates()
See the README and example auth.conf for more info. Let me know how it works out for you.

Python and curl question

I will be transmitting purchase info (like CC) to a bank gateway and retrieve the result by using Django thus via Python.
What would be the efficient and secure way of doing this?
I have read a documentation of this gateway for php, they seem to use this method:
$xml= Some xml holding data of a purchase.
$curl = `/usr/bin/curl -s -d 'DATA=$xml' "https://url of the virtual bank POS"`;
$data=explode("\n",$curl); //return value is also an xml, seems like they are splitting by each `\n`
and using the $data, they process if the payment is accepted, rejected etc..
I want to achieve this under python language, for this I have done some searching and seems like there is a python curl application named pycurl yet I have no experience using curl and do not know if this is library is suitable for this task. Please keep in mind that as this transfer requires security, I will be using SSL.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Use of the standard library urllib2 module should be enough:
import urllib
import urllib2
request_data = urllib.urlencode({"DATA": xml})
response = urllib2.urlopen("https://url of the virtual bank POS", request_data)
response_data = response.read()
data = response_data.split('\n')
I assume that xml variable holds data to be sent.
Citing pycurl.sourceforge.net:
To sum up, PycURL is very fast (esp. for multiple concurrent operations) and very feature complete, but has a somewhat complex interface. If you need something simpler or prefer a pure Python module you might want to check out urllib2 and urlgrabber. There is also a good comparison of the various libraries.
Both curl and urllib2 can work with https so it's up to you.

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