gistfile1.py

import urllib
import httplib
import json
import time
import zlib

email = 'abcdef@test.com'
password = 'abcdef'
apikey = 'e965434a-3ed5-540a-9ef2-1f8ce1dc60f2'

def api_request(conn, method, api_path, params):
    params['apikey'] = apikey
    body = urllib.urlencode(params)
    headers={}
    headers["Content-type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    headers["Accept-encoding"] = "gzip"
    headers["Content-length"] = len(body)
    conn.request(method, api_path, body, headers)
    return conn.getresponse()

def api_response_read(api_ret):
    accept_encoding = api_ret.getheader('content-encoding')
    content_len = int(api_ret.getheader('content-length'))
    resp_str = api_ret.read()
    if accept_encoding == 'gzip':
        decomp_str = zlib.decompress(resp_str, 15+32)
        rlen = len(decomp_str)
        ratio = content_len * 1.0 / rlen
        print "compression ratio: {0}".format(ratio)
        return decomp_str
    else:
        return resp_str

def main():
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('localhost', 8082)
    conn.set_debuglevel(0)
    ret = api_request(conn, 'POST', '/v2/auth/login', {'email': email, 'password': password})


    resp_str = api_response_read(ret)
    login_obj = json.loads(resp_str)
    ret = api_request(conn, 'POST', '/v2/users/get', {'session_token': login_obj['session_token'], 'user_id': login_obj['user']['user_id']})
    resp_str = api_response_read(ret)
    ret = api_request(conn, 'POST', '/v2/previews/get', {'session_token': login_obj['session_token'], 'url': 'http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html'})
    resp_str = api_response_read(ret)

    conn.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()