Start Ion Torrent plugins via the API using a Python script

startplugin.py

import requests
import json

#load config from your json files, and convert it to a python dict
config = {}
payload = {'plugin': ["HelloWorld"], "pluginconfig" : config }
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}

#the number is the primary key of the result to run the plugin on
r = requests.post("http://bebop.itw/rundb/api/v1/results/224/plugin/", data=json.dumps(payload), auth=('ionadmin', 'ionadmin'),headers=headers)

print r