HTTP Basic auth web request in django

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I am new to programming.. I used python to create code that gets data from an API using requests package and the request uses HTTPBasicAuth. Below is the request which works fine in genral python.

response = requests.get(url,auth=HTTPBasicAuth('username','password'),stream=True

Can some please advise how can I implement this in django. when I use the same code as below, it gives me an error as "name HTTPBasicAuth is not defined"

def index(request):
   if request.method == "POST":
      url = urlname
      response = requests.get(url,auth=HTTPBasicAuth('username','password'),stream=True
      data = response.json()

At the moment HTTPBasicAuth is outside the scope of the function. How are you importing HTTPBasicAuth? You might need to apply the blueprint by doing something like HTTPBasicAuth(app) in your config, then it'll be accessible by the function. — Jack
– Jack, Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 11:01
Hi Jack, in my general python code I did pip install requests and then used import requests however not sure how it works on the django side.. — Karthik Viz
– Karthik Viz, Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 11:03
tried that.. it says - cannot import name HTTPBasicAuth from requests.. — Karthik Viz
– Karthik Viz, Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 11:09
awesome.. that did the trick.. its working now.. Thank you Jack :) — Karthik Viz
– Karthik Viz, Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 11:14

Jack · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-14 11:28:11Z

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Change your import statement to:

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

answered Jun 14, 2020 at 11:28

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Karthik Viz Over a year ago

Thank you.. I marked it as an answer.. Quick question - Once I get the response in json dictionary.. any advise on how I can save all the records to the django model tables in the database? I am generating a large dataset of around 300k records. Please advise..

Jack Over a year ago

I'm not sure in Django but it could be something like: for record in records: db.session.add(record) db.session.commit()

Houda · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-14 11:30:10Z

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you can also use: HTTPDigestAuth

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth

answered Jun 14, 2020 at 11:30

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