Implementing Freshsales API in Python [duplicate] - django

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I am trying to integrate Freshsales functionality within my Django server in order to create leads, schedule appointments, etc. Freshsale's API Documentation in Python lacks detail, however. Here is a link to their API functionality using curl commands: https://www.freshsales.io/api/.
Their python code is as follows:
from .freshsales_exception import FreshsalesException
import requests
import json
def _request(path, payload):
try:
data = json.dumps(payload)
headers = { 'content-type': 'application/json', 'accept': 'application/json' }
resp = requests.post(path, data=data, headers=headers)
if resp.status_code != 200:
raise FreshsalesException("Freshsales responded with the status code of %s" % str(resp.status_code))
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
raise FreshsalesException(e.message)
In the case of the curl command, for example, to create an appointment, is:
curl -H "Authorization: Token token=sfg999666t673t7t82" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"appointment":{"title":"Sample Appointment","description":"This is just a sample Appointment.","from_date":"Mon Jun 20 2016 10:30:00 GMT+0530 (IST)","end_date":"Mon Jun 20 2016 11:30:00 GMT+0530 (IST)","time_zone":"Chennai","location":"Chennai, TN, India","targetable_id":"115765","targetable_type":"Lead", "appointment_attendees_attributes":[{ "attendee_type":"FdMultitenant::User","attendee_id":"223"},{"attendee_type":"FdMultitenant::User","attendee_id":"222"},{"attendee_type":"Lead","attendee_id":"115773"}] }}' -X POST
I understand that I need to use the requests library to make a post request. However, I do not understand how I need to format the request. The furthest extent I understand to list all appointments, for example, is for my request to be the following:
my_request = "https://mydomain.freshsales.io/api/appointments/token=myexampletoken"
response = requests.post(myrequest)
I am unsure of how to create the payload to be accepted by the API to create an appointment. How might I use the requests library to accomplish this? I have searched for how to execute curl commands in Python, and the only answers I ever saw were to use the requests library. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You're missing the Authorization header. You just need to translate curl headers -H to python code. This should work, according to your syntax.
headers = {
'content-type': 'application/json',
'accept': 'application/json'
'Authorization': 'Token token=sfg999666t673t7t82'
}