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Making API Call

  1. Install python dependencies

    pip install aws-requests-auth

  2. Import

    from aws_requests_auth.aws_auth import AWSRequestsAuth
from aws_requests_auth.boto_utils import BotoAWSRequestsAuth
import json
import requests

  3. Authenticate

    • With AWS Credentials configured

      auth = BotoAWSRequestsAuth(
    aws_region=api_region,
    aws_host=api_endpoint,
    aws_service='execute-api'
    )

    • If you are using IAM User Credentials

      auth = AWSRequestsAuth(
    aws_access_key=access_key,
    aws_secret_access_key=secret_key,
    aws_region=api_region,
    aws_host=api_endpoint,
    aws_service='execute-api'
    )

    Note

    aws_host

    • Refers to API Endpoint
    • Suppose you have an API https://test.myapi.com/get-info, aws_host will be test.myapi.com.

  4. Make API Call

    response = requests.get(
    my_api, 
    auth=auth
)

response_dict = json.loads(response.text)

    Note

    • Here my_api will be the api to which we would like to make call.
    • In our example, it will be https://test.myapi.com/get-info

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