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How to start with the InstagramAPI in Python?

i want to play with the InstagramAPI and write some code for like getting a list of my follower and something like that. I am really new to that topic.
What is the best way to do this? Is there a Python-Lib for handle those json request or should I send them directly to the (new? graphAPI, displayAPI) InstagramAPI?
Appreciate every advice I can get. Thanks :)

LevPasha's Instagram-API-python, instabot, and many other API's are no longer functional as of Oct 24, 2020 after Facebook deprecated the legacy API and now has a new, authentication-required, API. It now requires registering your app with Facebook to be able to get access to many of the API features (via oembed) that were previously available without any authentication.
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/oembed/ for more details on the new implementation and how to migrate.
You should still be able to get a list of your followers, etc. via the new oEmbed API and python--it will require registering the app, making a call to the new GET API with your authentication key via the python requests package, and then processing the result.

There is one library called instabot. This useful library has all the necessary functions/methods to interact with your insta account. Read its documentation here.
The pip installation is: pip install instabot
To get started with, lets say you want to simply login to your account.
from instabot import Bot
bot = Bot()
bot.login(username="YOUR USERNAME", password="YOUR PASSWORD")
To get the list of your followers,
my_followers = bot.followers()
If you want to upload a photo or get your posts,
bot.upload_photo(image, caption="blah blah blah") #the image variable here is a path to that image
all_posts = bot.get_your_medias() #this will return all of your medias of the account
#to get the info of each media, use
for post in all_posts:
print(bot.get_media_info(post))
and there are many other functions/methods available in this library.
It actually very fun to interact with instagram using python. You will have a great time. Enjoy :)

You can use https://github.com/LevPasha/Instagram-API-python to call Instagram APIs
and also if you want to call API directly You can use the requests package.
It also supports graphql APIs.
Here you can see an example:
https://gist.github.com/gbaman/b3137e18c739e0cf98539bf4ec4366ad

It seems like in 2022 this is the only active working and maintained python solution:
https://github.com/adw0rd/instagrapi

How do I connect to quickbooks online via python?

I'm trying to figure out how to authenticate and create an entry on quickbooks online through Python. Currently, when I try to click auth link in their API Explorer, I get 404 page.
What I'm trying to do is creating invoice through Python. However, it seems like their documentation is not complete. I contacted their support, and I haven't heard from them yet.

The python-quickbooks library is probably the correct choice now, as it is a "complete rework of quickbooks-python". It has pretty comprehensive instructions on getting and using the auth keys, though I wouldn't call it "simple", since the process is by definition somewhat complex. The instructions are "for Django", but the Django-specific code simply gets parameters out of a URL string.
We're using it to great effect, because the syntax is as easy as:
auth_client = AuthClient(
client_id = CLIENT_ID # from QB website
,client_secret = CLIENT_SECRET # from QB website
,environment = 'sandbox' # or 'production'
,redirect_uri = REDIRECT_URI
)
client = QuickBooks(
auth_client = auth_client
,refresh_token = REFRESH_TOKEN
,company_id = COMPANY_ID
)
account = Account.get(qbid, qb=client) # qbid can be retrieved from the AccountList
return account.CurrentBalance

This library will get the job done https://github.com/HaPsantran/quickbooks-python
It works in JSON so you would construct the Invoice based off of docs at https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0050_data_services/030_entity_services_reference/invoice using the JSON examples.
The library doesn't support sandbox mode** so if you are going to use the development consumer key and secret than you would change this code.
base_url_v3 = "https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3"
to
base_url_v3 = "https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3"
while in that mode.
** Sandbox mode only applies currently to U.S. QBO

Having written a lot of the module #Minimul mentions — with a very helpful start by simonv3, who figured out how to get it working first and then I just built on it — I am fairly confident that this will not support the oauth workflow of getting the request token, prompting the user to authenticate out of band, and then getting and storing the access token. It presumes you already have an access token.
Simon (or another Python developer) may be able to comment on how he gets the access token with Python, and if so, it'd be great if he (or they) could add it to the module for all to enjoy.

I had this same problem. I just figured it out and posed the step-by-step process here:
python with Quickbooks Online API v3
Hope this helps.

I looked at the existing python clients for quickbooks and found them to be either outdated or not having all the features. So i created a new python client for quickbooks which can be found at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/quickbooks-py

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.

Is there a working OAuth library for Python 3?

What's the most current form of Oauth for Python 3?
I'm trying to create a stock screener using my broker's API, which uses Oauth. Most of the info I find is out of date or conflicting. I've seen the following modules referenced:
Oauth - Seems to be the original, now outdated. I get an error of "'module' object has no attribute 'Consumer'"
Oauth2 - Newer version, apparently also outdated? The one most referenced one online. Glitches out in pip/can't figure out how to install it.
Oauthlib - IIRC, claims to be the new replacement for Oauth and Oauth2
Rauth.OAuth2Service - Also potentially replacement for Oauth and Oauth2?
Requests - ?
Oauth_hook - ?
pyoauth2 - I get an error about not having a module named "client" in pyoauth2's init.
None of them seem to work as expected, and I have a feeling that this is due to low Oauth 3 support. Have you gotten OAuth to work in Python 3? If so, how did you do it?

It looks like Requets_oauthlib works. Here's code I used that works in Python 3. I'm posting it because most of the example code I found used formats that I couldn't get working.
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1
client_key = ''
client_secret = ''
resource_owner_key = ''
resource_owner_secret = ''
def query(queryurl):
headeroauth = OAuth1(client_key, client_secret, resource_owner_key,
resource_owner_secret, signature_type = 'auth_header')
return requests.get(queryurl, auth = headeroauth)
query('http://website.com')

Author of rauth here: rauth is a client library which currently does not officially support Python 3.
However, we are working on it, and there's an active branch (aptly named "python-3") over at GitHub which works. You're free to use it, but bear in mind that things may change slightly when we officially release support for it later on. With that said, it would be great to have people out in the real world testing it so that we can make changes to accommodate the Python 3 ecosystem.
Also note: oauthlib is not a replacement for rauth and not a client library. It attempts to be a generic solution, much like python-oauth2 was, but it doesn't provide a client, unlike python-oauth2.

Windows live api for 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