Postita API example with requests

postita.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

import requests
import json
import base64

URL_ROOT = "https://postita.fi/api/"
PDF_PATH = 'muistutusviesti.pdf'
USER = None
PASS = None

def main():
    # Encode the PDF
    with open(PDF_PATH, 'rb') as pdf:
        pdf_b64 = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(pdf.read())

    # We need to create a POST request from our data.
    payload = dict(pdf=pdf_b64, job_name='Muistutusviesti')

    r = requests.post(URL_ROOT + 'send/', data=payload, auth=(USER, PASS))
    r.raise_for_status()
    job_info = json.loads(r.content)
    print job_info
    # {u'status': u'CO', u'name': u'Muistutusviesti', u'created': u'23.10.2011 01:39:21', u'total_pages': 1, u'recipient_count': 1, u'is_einvoice': False, u'id': 123456, u'is_massmail': False, u'price': u'0.74', u'vat_price': u'0.91'}
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()