I'm attempting to make the simplest possible REST API server and client, with both the server and client being written in Python and running on the same computer.

From this tutorial:

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask

I'm using this for the server:

# server.pyfrom flask import Flask, jsonifyapp = Flask(__name__)tasks = [{'id': 1,'title': u'Buy groceries','description': u'Milk, Cheese, Pizza, Fruit, Tylenol','done': False},{'id': 2,'title': u'Learn Python','description': u'Need to find a good Python tutorial on the web','done': False}
]@app.route('/todo/api/v1.0/tasks', methods=['GET'])
def get_tasks():return jsonify({'tasks': tasks})if __name__ == '__main__':app.run(debug=True)

If I run this from the command line:

curl -i http://localhost:5000/todo/api/v1.0/tasks

I get this:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 317
Server: Werkzeug/0.16.0 Python/3.6.9
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:45:59 GMT{"tasks": [{"description": "Milk, Cheese, Pizza, Fruit, Tylenol", "done": false, "id": 1, "title": "Buy groceries"}, {"description": "Need to find a good Python tutorial on the web", "done": false, "id": 2, "title": "Learn Python"}]
}

Great, now my question is, how can I write a Python script using requests to obtain the same information?

I suspect this is the proper idea:

# client.pyimport requestsurl = 'http://todo/api/v1.0/tasks'response = requests.get(url,# what goes here ??)print('response = ' + str(response))

However as you can see from my comment, I'm not sure how to set up the parameters for requests.get.

I attempted to use this SO post:

Making a request to a RESTful API using python

as a guideline however it's not clear how to adjust the formatting per the message change.

Can provide a brief description of how to set up params to pass into requests.get and suggest the necessary changes to get the client example above working? Thanks!

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Something else I can mention is that I got the client to work using Postman pretty easily, I'm just not sure how to set up the syntax in Python:

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Based on icedwater's response below, this is complete, working code for the client:

# client.pyimport requests
import jsonurl = 'http://localhost:5000/todo/api/v1.0/tasks'response = requests.get(url)print(str(response))
print('')
print(json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4))

result:

<Response [200]>{"tasks": [{"description": "Milk, Cheese, Pizza, Fruit, Tylenol","done": false,"id": 1,"title": "Buy groceries"},{"description": "Need to find a good Python tutorial on the web","done": false,"id": 2,"title": "Learn Python"}]
}

From help(requests.get):

Help on function get in module requests.api:get(url, params=None, **kwargs)Sends a GET request.:param url: URL for the new :class:`Request` object.:param params: (optional) Dictionary or bytes to be sent in the query string for the :class:`Request`.:param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes.:return: :class:`Response <Response>` object:rtype: requests.Response

so I would say requests.get(url) would be enough to get a response. Then look at either the json() or data() functions in response depending on what the API is expected to return.

So for the case of a JSON response, the following code should be enough:

import requests
import jsonurl = "https://postman-echo.com/get?testprop=testval"
response = requests.get(url)
print(json.dumps(response.json(), indent=4))

Try the above code with an actual test API.