qbrequests.py

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
first, install requests and oauth hook:

  > sudo pip install requests requests-oauth -U

then run:

  > python qbrequests.py

expected failure rate is about 50%, and is seemingly random.

"""

import requests
import urllib
from oauth_hook import OAuthHook


QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxx'
QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxx'

ACCESS_TOKEN = 'xxx'
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'xxx'

BASE_URL = 'https://qbo.intuit.com/qboNN/'
REALM_ID = 'xxx'


# print out the raw, concated header
def new_authorization_header(oauth_params):
    """Return Authorization header"""
    authorization_headers = 'OAuth '

    # order in a specific manner...
    keys = ['oauth_consumer_key', 'oauth_token', 'oauth_nonce', 'oauth_timestamp',
            'oauth_signature_method', 'oauth_signature', 'oauth_version']
    items = ((k, oauth_params[k]) for k in keys)

    authorization_headers += ','.join(['{0}="{1}"'.format(k, urllib.quote(str(v))) for k, v in items])
    print authorization_headers
    return authorization_headers
OAuthHook.authorization_header = staticmethod(new_authorization_header)


qbsession = requests.session(headers={'Host': 'qbo.intuit.com',
                                      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
                             hooks={'pre_request': OAuthHook(access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN,
                                                             access_token_secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
                                                             consumer_key=QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_KEY, 
                                                             consumer_secret=QUICKBOOKS_CONSUMER_SECRET,
                                                             header_auth=True)})


for x in range(10):
    URL = BASE_URL + 'resource/customers/v2/{0}'.format(REALM_ID)

    response = qbsession.post(url=URL,
                              params={'Sort': 'CreateTime NewestToOldest'},
                              data={})

    try:
        response.raise_for_status()
        print 'Successful request!'
    except:
        print 'Failed request:', response
        print 'request headers:', response.request.headers
        print 'response content:', response.content

    print # spacer