API help with Python

[Moo]

Hi I'm trying to use Artsy API for a self project, but I'm having trouble getting the data. Not really sure how to use the API with python and I can't seem to find any documentation on it.

The only module I'm using on Python right now is requests, and I manage to get the token.

When I run the example line: res = requests.get("https://api.artsy.net/api/artists/andy-warhol"), I get {'type': 'auth_error', 'message': 'An application token or a user is required.'}.

I try appending the token at different parts of the URL, but with no luck. I'm pretty new to using API. Some help would be awesome. 

Thanks

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

Not sure about Python specifically, but there're examples with curl in https://developers.artsy.net/docs/authentication that you should try first with the token, just to make sure the token is valid.

For xapp tokens you have to supply them in the header as X-Xapp-Token. This SO seems to say how to do it.

If you figure everything out we'd love to extend the docs with python examples! The developer site is open-source, so you can either contribute or open an issue with some working code and we'll do it time permitting, https://github.com/artsy/doppler.

cheers

dB.

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[Dr Worm]

import json, requests

client_id = 'your_client_id'
client_secret = 'your_client_secret'
api_url = 'https://api.artsy.net/api/tokens/xapp_token'
##THIS BIT IS GETTING THE TOKEN
 r = requests.post(api_url,
                   data={
                       "client_id":client_id,
                       "client_secret":client_secret
                   })

j = json.loads(r.text)
token = j["token"]

##THIS BIT GETS THE INFORMATION
##YOU WERE TYPING IN THE NAME OF THE ARTIST AND I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE THE ID
headers = {"X-Xapp-Token" : token}
url = "https://api.artsy.net/api/artists"
r = requests.get(url, headers = headers)

data = json.loads(r.text)

But when I get the data from artists. All of the names are either empty or have numbers. Even when i go to the json file directly, i only see like 4 different artists.

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

This is actually working as expected.

You can try this in the browser and you will see that https://api.artsy.net/api/artists is a paginated result of 135,828 artists. The first two should probably not exist (an artist without a name and an artist with the name "artist"). The third one is legit, https://www.artsy.net/artist/00100011 is an actual artist, the art world is fun like that ;)

Try https://api.artsy.net/api/artists?sample=1 for a random, more interesting artist.

cheers

dB.

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[Dr Worm]

Okay i see how it works now. Thanks you! just made it a lot easier for me.

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