gistfile1.py

import time
import base64
import hmac

from hashlib import sha1


def create_signature(date, method, path):
    data = "-%s-%s-%s-" % (date, method, path)
    salt = sha1(data).hexdigest()[:20]
    return base64.encodestring(hmac.new("ANKODER_PRIVATE_KEY", salt, sha1).digest()).strip()

date = time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %X GMT", time.gmtime())
date = "Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:58:43 GMT"
sig = create_signature(date, "GET", "/profile")
print 'curl api.ankoder.com/profile -X GET -H "ankoder_access_key: ANKODER_ACCESS_KEY" -H "ankoder_passkey: %s" -H "ankoder_date: %s"' % (sig, date)