Python request resulting in blank response

Question

I'm relatively new to Python so would like some help, I've created a script which simply use the request library and basic auth to connect to an API and returns the xml or Json result.

# Imports
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

# Set variables 
url = "api"
apiuser = 'test'
apipass = 'testpass'

# CALL API
r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(apiuser, apipass))

# Print Statuscode
print(r.status_code)

# Print XML
xmlString = str(r.text)
print(xmlString)

if but it returns a blank string.

If I was to use a browser to call the api and enter the cretentials I get the following response.

<Response>
<status>SUCCESS</status>
<callId>99999903219032190321</callId>
<result xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="Dummy">
<authorFullName>jack jones</authorFullName>
<authorOrderNumber>1</authorOrderNumber>
</result>
</Response>

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong.

Solution

What API are you connecting to?

Try adding a user-agent to the header:

r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(apiuser, apipass), headers={'User-Agent':'test'})

Comments

[SuperStew]

Are you sure you need HTTPBasicAuth?

[IMCoins]

What does print(r.status_code) outputs ? Have you tried print r.content ?

[MrG]

the status code is 200 which is what I'm finding confusing and if I print the r.content it returns b''.....its version 3 so print r.content doesn't work so I use print(r.content) if thats correct

[MrG]

Sorry i'd printed the r.status_code to see what was being returned to see if there was anything else which was causing the error. I've tried the time.sleep option and it not worked sadly, I'm confused as it returned data to a web browser quite quickly 1 second max. but the calling the data via python results in nothing .

[ipop]

print(r.content) also returns blank? could you provide the API you are using if it's a public one?

[MrG]

Thanks guys, I've sorted the issue not, it was down to the auth type, it required digest auth after all # CALL API r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPDigestAuth(apiuser, apipass))