authorize.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""authorize.ipynb

Automatically generated by Colaboratory.

Original file is located at
    https://colab.research.google.com/drive/159SabTCJokw2YlqyXiPJZdy7UfVE6HCa

Import the libraries so that they can be used within the notebook

* **requests** is used to make HTTP calls
* **json** is used to encode and decode strings into JSON
* **string** is used to perform text manipulation and checking
* **getpass** is used to do non-echoing password input
"""

import requests
import json
import string
import getpass

"""The **base_url** holds the URL to the SEEK instance that will be used in the notebook

**headers** holds the HTTP headers that will be sent with every HTTP call

* **Content-type: application/vnd.api+json** - indicates that any data sent will be in JSON API format
* **Accept: application/vnd.api+json** - indicates that the notebook expects any data returned to be in JSON API format
* **Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1** - indicates that the notebook expects any text returned to be in ISO-8859-1 character set
"""

base_url = 'http://www.fairdomhub.org/'

headers = {"Content-type": "application/vnd.api+json",
           "Accept": "application/vnd.api+json",
           "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1"}

"""Create a **requests** HTTP **Session**. A **Session** has re-usable settings such as **headers**

The **authorization** is username and password. The user is prompted for this information.
"""

session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update(headers)
session.auth = (input('Username:'), getpass.getpass('Password'))

"""Perform a test **GET** to ensure the username and password worked"""

r = session.get(base_url + 'models/311')

r.raise_for_status()