github API

README.md

Python fo humans

This code comes from http://python-for-humans.heroku.com/ I copy it here because I really want to have this code in a nice place.

Yep, I really love python but somethings it drives me crazy.

"Simplify terrible APIs."

Tutorial

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html

Credits

The author of this code is kennethreitz

easy-http.py

import requests

url = 'https://api.github.com/user'
auth = ('username', 'password')

r = requests.get(url, auth=auth)
print r.content

github-api.py

import urllib2

gh_url = 'https://api.github.com/user'

req = urllib2.Request(gh_url)

password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_manager.add_password(None, gh_url, 'user', 'pass')

auth_manager = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_manager)

urllib2.install_opener(opener)

handler = urllib2.urlopen(req)

print handler.read()

github-api.rb

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI.parse('https://api.github.com/user')

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
req.basic_auth('username', 'password')

r = http.request(req)

puts r

HTTPForcedBasicAuthHandler.py

import re

class HTTPForcedBasicAuthHandler(HTTPBasicAuthHandler):

    auth_header = 'Authorization'
    rx = re.compile('(?:.*,)*[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]+'
                    'realm=(["\'])(.*?)\\2', re.I)

    def __init__(self,  *args, **kwargs):
        HTTPBasicAuthHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

    def http_error_401(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers):
        url = req.get_full_url()
        response = self._http_error_auth_reqed(
            'www-authenticate', url, req, headers)
        self.reset_retry_count()
        return response