Python script to download slideshares for a User

gistfile1.txt

# docs https://www.slideshare.net/developers/documentation
# pip install xmltodict requests

import requests
import time
from hashlib import sha1
import os
import json
import xmltodict

user = 'neo4j'
api_key = os.environ.get("SLIDESHARE_KEY")
api_secret = os.environ.get("SLIDESHARE_SECRET")

# compute current time seconds since epoch
ts = str(int(time.time()))
hash = sha1(bytes(api_secret + ts,"ascii")).hexdigest()

url = f"https://www.slideshare.net/api/2/get_slideshows_by_user?username_for={user}&api_key={api_key}&hash={hash}&ts={ts}"

# print(url)

r = requests.get(url)
print(r.status_code)

if r.status_code == 200:
    dicts = xmltodict.parse(r.content)
    print(len(dicts))
    f = open("slides.json","w")
    f.write(json.dumps(dicts))
    f.close()
else:
    print("Error: ", r.status_code, r.content)