How should I handle this HTTPS request in Python?

Question

I am trying to use the Strava API v3 in Python, and I am afraid I am missing something. The docs say:

This base URL is used for all Strava API requests: https://api.strava.com
$ curl -i https://api.strava.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000 X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999 Content-Length: 2
Responses are in JSON format and gzipped.

I am currently doing this:

import urllib
print urllib.urlopen('https://api.strava.com').read()

And gettin this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "StravaAPIv3.py", line 3, in <module>
    print urllib.urlopen('https://api.strava.com').read()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 86, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 207, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 436, in open_https
    h.endheaders(data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 776, in send
    self.connect()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1157, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

I don't know where to start, since I don't know much about HTTP requests and HTTPS

UPDATE: According to Merlin's suggestion to use requests module, I am doing this:

import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.strava.com/')
print r.status_code
print r.headers['content-type']
print r.encoding
print r.text
print r.json()

but keep getting an error:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.strava.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by <class 'so cket.gaierror'>: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed)

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '13 at 12:44

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Try using requests! It's safer. http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

answered May 09 '13 at 12:44

Merlin

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Getting this error: `requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.strava.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by : [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed)` – heltonbiker May 09 '13 at 13:07
I have edited the question with the code I used that generated this error. – heltonbiker May 09 '13 at 13:27
Well, it seems the thing is too brittle at the moment (although they intend to release this in June...). +1 for a robust http module, then! (I installed it easily with PIP) – heltonbiker May 09 '13 at 14:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '13 at 22:29

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You need to follow the instructions here first: http://strava.github.io/api/v3/oauth/ Basically, the app you create has to authorize the user using it (in this case, you). I've written some example code below. I'm new to python so don't know how to automate log in, so you'll have to copy and paste the url to the browser and copy and paste the code in.

import requests
import json

#Replace #### with your client id (listed here: http://www.strava.com/settings/api)
#Replace &&&& with your redirect uri listed on the same page. I used localhost
#Go this url in your browser and log in. Click authorize
https://www.strava.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=###&response_type=code&redirect_uri=&&&&

#Copy and paste the code returned in the url
code='qwertyuio123456789'
#Replace @@@@ with the code on your api page
values={'client_id':'###', 'client_secret':  '@@@@', 'code':code}
r = requests.post('https://www.strava.com/oauth/token', data=values)
json_string = r.text.replace("'", "\"")
values = json.loads(json_string)

#now you have an access token
r = requests.get('http://www.strava.com/api/v3/athletes/227615', params=values)

Have fun!

answered Oct 20 '13 at 22:29

stuppie

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That seems promising. Gonna test it as soon as I can and give some feedback here. Thanks! – heltonbiker Oct 21 '13 at 12:18
Could you just tell me how could I use the "localhost" thing to get the codes? I got a bad request error... – heltonbiker Oct 21 '13 at 23:02
You need to set a callback url in the strava api setting page. It is the website strava will redirect the user to once they have authorized. Since you are doing this in python, this doesn't matter. So just set the callback url to localhost, both in the url string and on the settings page on your account. – stuppie Nov 11 '13 at 22:35
I've got it... The problem is that I should have asked to REGISTER my application in the first place. But currently Strava is limiting registration just to a few developers... Well, thank you very much for your help, but I'll have to wait a little bit, it seems... – heltonbiker Nov 12 '13 at 12:29

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '13 at 12:48

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You need to use httplib. Sample code to get to a HTTPS server:

import httplib

con = httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.google.com')
con.request("GET", "/")
res = con.getresponse()
print res.read()

answered May 09 '13 at 12:48

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Getting this error: `httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: '//api.strava.com/'` – heltonbiker May 09 '13 at 13:06
Is the URL correct? I get a "webpage" not available when I try that URL in the browser and `ping api.strava.com` comes back with "Unknown host" – marcoseu May 09 '13 at 14:19

How should I handle this HTTPS request in Python?

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