Python custom WebDAV PROPFIND on an owncloud server with requests HTTP library

propfind_request.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from xml.dom import minidom
import requests

# some consts
HTTP_MULTI_STATUS = 207
PROPFIND_REQUEST = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<d:propfind xmlns:d="DAV:">
<d:prop xmlns:oc="http://owncloud.org/ns">
  <d:getlastmodified/>
  <oc:size/> 
</d:prop>
</d:propfind>'''

# init request session
s = requests.Session()
s.auth = ('admin', 'admin')
r = s.request(method='PROPFIND', url='http://localhost:8080/remote.php/webdav/Documents',
              data=PROPFIND_REQUEST, headers={'Depth': '0'})

# check result
if r.status_code == HTTP_MULTI_STATUS:
    print('RAW XML: \n%s\n' % r.text)
    # parse XML
    dom = minidom.parseString(r.text.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
    # d:href in d:response
    response = dom.getElementsByTagName('d:response')[0]
    href = response.getElementsByTagName('d:href')[0].firstChild.data
    # d:getlastmodified and oc:size in d:response/d:propstat/d:prop
    prop_stat = response.getElementsByTagName('d:propstat')[0]
    prop = prop_stat.getElementsByTagName('d:prop')[0]
    get_last_modified = prop.getElementsByTagName('d:getlastmodified')[0].firstChild.data
    oc_size = prop.getElementsByTagName('oc:size')[0].firstChild.data

    print('d:href = %s' % href)
    print('d:getlastmodified = %s' % get_last_modified)
    print('oc:size = %s' % oc_size)