Question

how would i tranfoms this curl command:

curl -v -d email=[e-mail] -d password=mypassword -X POST https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/sessions.json

into urlib2?

Why is this not working:

url=       'https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/sessions.json'
username = '[e-mail]'
password = 'mypassword'

passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, url, username, password)

authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)

opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)

urllib2.install_opener(opener)
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(url)

it gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/jorrit/virtualenvs/tiddle/tiddle/troggle/tests.py", line 16, in test_get_troggle_connection
    get_projects()
  File "/Users/jorrit/virtualenvs/tiddle/tiddle/troggle/views.py", line 29, in get_projects
    pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 513, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 438, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 521, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Answer 1

with requests package, the code would be:

import requests

url = 'https://www.toggl.com/api/v6/sessions.json'
payload = {'email': '[e-mail]',
           'password': 'mypassword'}

r = requests.post(url, data=payload)