Fetch compressed content from an URL (e.g., usable with Lenses REST API)

get_compressed_url.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Get compressed URL content

import gzip
import StringIO
import urllib2

req = urllib2.Request('http://my.lenses.url/api/alerts',
                      headers = {
                                   'Accept-encoding': 'gzip',
                                   'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                                   'X-Kafka-Lenses-Token': 'my-service-account-token'})
resp = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
buf = StringIO.StringIO(resp)
print gzip.GzipFile(fileobj = buf).read()