request-oauthlib is python library for calling restful api with oauth authentiation
https://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
An example get and post is as below:
from oauthlib.oauth2 import LegacyApplicationClient
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
import json
api_url = 'https://xxx.xyz/api'
token_url = 'https://xxx.xyz/api/token.oauth2'
client_id = 'xxx'
client_secret = 'xxx'
api_user_name = 'xxx'
api_user_pwd = 'xxx'
oauth = OAuth2Session(client=LegacyApplicationClient(client_id=client_id))
token = oauth.fetch_token(
token_url = token_url,
username = api_user_name,
password = api_user_pwd,
client_secret=client_secret
)
#a get request example
response = oauth.get(f"{api_url}/v1/getlist",)
print(response.json())
#a post request
#note the post data must be a json dump
response = oauth.post(f"{api_url}/v1/fetchmultiple",
data = json.dumps({"names": ["abc", "efg"]}),)
print(response)