Part of the blog series related to making web service calls to Eoddata.com. Overview of the web service can be found here.
Login call: http://ws.eoddata.com/data.asmx?op=Login
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%run ../../code/version_check.py
Date Created: 2017-03-25
Date of Change Change Notes
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2017-03-25 Initial draft
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%run ../../code/eoddata.py
from getpass import getpass
import requests as r
import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
ws = 'http://ws.eoddata.com/data.asmx'
ns='http://ws.eoddata.com/Data'
session = r.Session()
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username = getpass()
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password = getpass()
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call = 'Login'
url = '/'.join((ws, call))
payload = {'Username': username, 'Password': password}
response = session.get(url, params=payload, stream=True)
if response.status_code == 200:
root = etree.parse(response.raw).getroot()
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token = root.get('Token')
token
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dir(root)
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for item in root.items():
print (item)
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for key in root.keys():
print (key)
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print(root.get('Message'))
print(root.get('Token'))
print(root.get('DataFormat'))
print(root.get('Header'))
print(root.get('Suffix'))
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def Login(session, username, password):
call = 'Login'
url = '/'.join((ws, call))
payload = {'Username': username, 'Password': password}
response = session.get(url, params=payload, stream=True)
if response.status_code == 200:
root = etree.parse(response.raw).getroot()
return root.get('Token')
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token = Login(session, username, password)
token
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# pass in username and password
eoddata = Client(username, password)
token = eoddata.get_token()
eoddata.close_session()
print('token: {}'.format(token))
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# initialise using secure credentials file
eoddata = Client()
token = eoddata.get_token()
eoddata.close_session()
print('token: {}'.format(token))
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# no need to manually close the session when using a with block
with (Client()) as eoddata:
print('token: {}'.format(eoddata.get_token()))