How to go from Request to Urllib2

Question

I need to rewrite the following function using only the python standard library.

def request_release_info(self):
    req = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo/releases/latest',
                       auth=('user', 'token'))
    content = req.json()
    return content

So I need to replace Requests by Urllib/Urllib2 but I'm unable to find a way to pass my username and my token in a similar way.

Thank you for your help !

out of curiosity, why would you need to go from requests to urllib2? — Loïc, Dec 19 '15 at 00:25
I'm building a very small mac app with py2app and unfortunately when I add the requests package I have an error that can't be fixed easily so the easiest way that I found to avoid this issue is to use only the std lib — mandok, Dec 19 '15 at 00:32
Try the most upvoted answer here? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/635113/python-urllib2-basic-http-authentication-and-tr-im — RavenMan, Dec 19 '15 at 01:14
Thanks !! The second answer was the right one for my problem ! — mandok, Dec 19 '15 at 01:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 19 '15 at 01:22

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import urllib, json

result = urllib.urlopen('https://<My_Token>:x-oauth-basic@api.github.com/repos/<user>/<repo>/releases/latest')
r = json.load(result.fp)

print r
result.close()

answered Dec 19 '15 at 01:22

mandok

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '15 at 08:21

This is example usage of your code, but don't forget about error processing.

from urllib import request
from urllib import error
from base64 import b64encode

def request_release_info(self):
    # build authorization
    user_and_pass = b64encode(b"username:password").decode("ascii")

    # first, we build request
    my_req = request.Request('https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo/releases/latest')

    # then attach auth header
    my_req.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % user_and_pass)

    # and after that try to execute it
    try:
        content = request.urlopen(my_req)
    except error.HTTPError:
        content = "add error processing, example for wrong log/password"

    return content

How to go from Request to Urllib2

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