Python Rest API, how to sign in to retieve data

Question

I am trying to access a dataset from python available here

In the API documentation, there is no information on how to sign in using username and password via script. Upon manually entering the API URL into a browser

https://ev.caltech.edu/api/v1/sessions/caltech/ts

I have to manually enter the username: DEMO_TOKEN and password: <blank> and click on sign in to get the JSON response from the server.

How do I programmatically do that in python?

Below is my snippet which doesn't work

import requests
api_url = "https://ev.caltech.edu/api/v1/sessions/caltech/ts"
response = requests.get(api_url)

response.json()

Cow · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-24 11:55:13Z

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Works for me, when I do this:

import requests
user = "DEMO_TOKEN"
passwd = ""
api_url = "https://ev.caltech.edu/api/v1/sessions/caltech/ts"
response = requests.get(api_url, auth=(user,passwd))
if response.status_code == 200:
    print(response.json())

Please be warned, the json is HUGE.

answered Feb 24, 2022 at 11:55

Cow

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