How to call the CITES species api in python?-CodePudding

I am trying to access the cites species api to get information on a input species name.

Reference document: http://api.speciesplus.net/documentation/v1/references.html

I tried to use the api with the provided API Key.

I get error code 401.

Here is the code

import requests

APIKEY='XXXXXXXXXXXX' # Replaced with provided api key
r = requests.get('https://api.speciesplus.net/api/v1/taxon_concepts.xml?name=Mammalia&X-Authentication-Token={APIKEY}')
r

CodePudding user response：

As @jonrsharpe said in comment:

"Headers and query parameters aren't the same thing..."

You have to set APIKEY as header - don't put it in URL.

You may also put parameters as dictionary and requests will append them to URL - and code will be more readable.

import requests

APIKEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'

headers = {
    "X-Authentication-Token": APIKEY,
}

payload = {
   "name": "Mammalia",
}

url = "https://api.speciesplus.net/api/v1/taxon_concepts.xml"

response = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

EDIT:

If you skip .xml in URL then you get data as JSON and it can be more useful

url = "https://api.speciesplus.net/api/v1/taxon_concepts"

response = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

data = response.json()

for item in data:
    print(item['citation'])