A sample code to invoke GET method of restful API with digest authentication

RestfulGetClient.py

#Python 2.7.6
#RestfulClient.py

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
import json

# Replace with the correct URL
url = "http://api_url"

# It is a good practice not to hardcode the credentials. So ask the user to enter credentials at runtime
myResponse = requests.get(url,auth=HTTPDigestAuth(raw_input("username: "), raw_input("Password: ")), verify=True)
#print (myResponse.status_code)

# For successful API call, response code will be 200 (OK)
if(myResponse.ok):

	# Loading the response data into a dict variable
	# json.loads takes in only binary or string variables so using content to fetch binary content
	# Loads (Load String) takes a Json file and converts into python data structure (dict or list, depending on JSON)
	jData = json.loads(myResponse.content)
	
	print("The response contains {0} properties".format(len(jData)))
	print("\n")
	for key in jData:
		print key + " : " + jData[key]
else:
  # If response code is not ok (200), print the resulting http error code with description
	myResponse.raise_for_status()

@wgsl2005 - the code assumes that the credentials are passed through digest authentication. If that is not the case, you can try out other authentication methods