Use the API with Python 2

API

Example

import urllib2 import json calaos_url = 'https://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/api.php' # Calaos server API url calaos_user = 'XXX' calaos_password = 'XXX' # Parameters dictionary to be sent to Calaos server dict_send = { 'cn_user': calaos_user, 'cn_pass': calaos_password, 'action': 'get_home' # get the complete configuration of the house } json_send = json.dumps(dict_send) # parameters string in JSON format data_send = json_send.encode('ascii') # bytes data to be sent headers_send = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'} # media type of the data to be sent request = urllib2.Request(calaos_url, data_send, headers_send) # data sent with POST method response = urllib2.urlopen(request) print(response.info()) data_receive = response.read() # bytes data received json_receive = data_receive.decode('ascii') # string received in JSON format dict_receive = json.loads(json_receive) # dictionary received print(dict_receive)