Python: download website with basic auth and simple json parsing

dowloadWithAuth.py

import requests
import json
import logging
import getpass


#logging config:
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format=' %(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
logging.debug('Start of program')


# credentials
USER_NAME = '[email protected]'
print('Username: ' + USER_NAME)

try:
    PASSWORD_ENTERED = getpass.getpass()
except Exception as error:
    print('ERROR', error)

basicAuthCredentials = ( USER_NAME,PASSWORD_ENTERED )
 
# Send HTTP GET request to server and attempt to receive a response
try:
    response = requests.get('https://jira.calypso.com/rest/api/2/project/CAL/versions', auth=basicAuthCredentials)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
    print (e)
    
      
# If the HTTP GET request can be served
if response.status_code == 200:
    rt = response.text
    print('download complete')

parsedData = json.loads(rt)

#print(parsedData[0:4])

totalRows = 0

for i in parsedData:
    totalRows += 1
    #print(i["name"])

print(totalRows)