using testrail api in python script

Question

I have the curl command, but not sure about how to run that in python script.

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u "username:password" -d '{ "name":"something" }' "https://xxxxxxxx"

I'm planning to use subprocess, but the api documents aren't very helpful.

Also does anyone know how to get the sectionId from testrail?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '15 at 08:16

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Bill from TestRail here. You can find a link to our Python bindings here:

http://docs.gurock.com/testrail-api2/bindings-python

Regarding getting the section ID, you can use the get_sections method for a project/suite to return all the section details including IDs. You can find more info on that here:

http://docs.gurock.com/testrail-api2/reference-sections#get_sections

If you're looking for the section ID for a specific test case, you can get that from the get_case method.

answered Jul 08 '15 at 08:16

billk

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Yeah, I made it work using python bindings. Thank you! – Khalil Jul 08 '15 at 20:38

augurar · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-08T06:25:58.557

You probably want to use the requests package for this. The curl command translates to something like this:

import json
import requests

response = requests.post('https://xxxxxxxx',
                         data=json.dumps({'name': 'something'}),
                         headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
                         auth=('username', 'password'))
response_data = response.json()

If you really want to use subprocess, you can do something like this:

import subprocess

curl_args = ['curl', '-H', 'Content-Type: application/json', '-u', 'username:password',
             '-d', '{ "name":"something" }', 'https://xxxxxxxx']
curl_output = subprocess.check_output(curl_args)

I consider the latter approach less "Pythonic".

Thank you so much, that is exactly what I need – Khalil Jul 08 '15 at 20:37 — Khalil, Jul 08 '15 at 20:37

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