How to consume a json Rest API with Python using tornado

app.py

# Remember to add the dependency > pip install unirest
from tornado.httpclient import HTTPClient
from tornado.httpclient import AsyncHTTPClient
import tornado.ioloop

url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/twilio/twilio-node/contributors'
headers = {'user-agent': 'my app'}

# Synchronous
http_client = HTTPClient()
response = http_client.fetch(url, headers=headers)
print(response.body)
http_client.close()

# Asynchronous
async_http_client = AsyncHTTPClient()
async_http_client.fetch(url, headers=headers, callback=lambda r: print(r.body))

# Start the tornado ioloop
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()