Invoicexpress API - Python Example

example.py

import httplib, urllib

account_name = 'XXXX'
api_key = 'XXXXX'
url = account_name + '.invoicexpress.net:443'
endpoint = '/invoices.xml?api_key=' + api_key

headers = { 
 'Content-type' : 'application/xml; charset=utf-8', 
 'Accept' : 'text/plain' 
}

params = '<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\
          <invoice>\
            <date>19/10/2009</date>\
            <due_date>19/10/2009</due_date>\
          <client>\
            <name>Bruce Norris</name>\
          </client>\
          <items type=\"array\">\
            <item>\
              <name>Product 1</name>\
              <description>Cleaning product</description>\
              <unit_price>10.0</unit_price>\
              <quantity>1.0</quantity>\
              <unit>unit</unit>\
            </item>\
          </items>\
        </invoice>'



conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(url)
conn.request("POST", endpoint, params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason

data = response.read()
data

conn.close()