Marvel API

So I found that Marvel have an API.

Marvel API http://developer.marvel.com/

Community http://developer.marvel.com/community

Authorization http://developer.marvel.com/documentation/authorization

Original https://gist.github.com/oshliaer/eb8d7197e6749475652a

[gist 2726b33578720c42b24c /]

character_by_name.py

# #!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import time
import hashlib
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

q = {}
q['ts'] = str(time.time())
q['apikey'] = '{Your_public_key}'
q['name'] = 'Spider-Man'
privateKey = '{Your_private_key}'
q['hash'] = hashlib.md5(bytes(q['ts'] + privateKey + q['apikey'], 'utf-8')).hexdigest()

params = urllib.parse.urlencode(q)
url = 'http://gateway.marvel.com/v1/public/characters?%s' % params

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as f:
	print(f.read())

characters.py

# #!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import time
import hashlib
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

q = {}
q['ts'] = str(time.time())
q['apikey'] = '{Your_public_key}'
privateKey = '{Your_private_key}'
q['hash'] = hashlib.md5(bytes(q['ts'] + privateKey + q['apikey'], 'utf-8')).hexdigest()

params = urllib.parse.urlencode(q)
url = 'http://gateway.marvel.com/v1/public/characters?%s' % params

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as f:
	print(f.read())

characters2.py

# #!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import with_statement
from __future__ import absolute_import
import time
import hashlib
import urllib2, urllib, urlparse

q = {}
q[u'ts'] = unicode(time.time())
q['apikey'] = '{Your_public_key}'
privateKey = '{Your_private_key}'
q[u'hash'] = hashlib.md5(str(q['ts'] + privateKey + q['apikey']).encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

params = urllib.urlencode(q)
print params
url = u'http://gateway.marvel.com/v1/public/characters?%s' % params

#with urllib2.urlopen(url) as f:
f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
#print f.read()

I converted them to version 2 as I only have 2.7 on my machine atm

Convert from 3 to 2 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/3to2/1.1.1

3to2 -w FILENAME.py

MD5 http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php

The Authorisation page shows:

ts: 1

Public Key: 1234

Private Key: abcd

making: 1abcd1234

hash: ffd275c5130566a2916217b101f26150

(http://gateway.marvel.com/v1/comics?ts=1&apikey=1234&hash=ffd275c5130566a2916217b101f26150)

I created a Mac App to create the Hash and create this URL.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2018550/how-do-i-create-an-md5-hash-of-a-string-in-cocoa

NSTimeInterval timeStamp = \[\[NSDate date\] timeIntervalSince1970\];
// NSTimeInterval is defined as double
NSNumber \*timeStampObj = \[NSNumber numberWithDouble: timeStamp\];
txtTimestamp.stringValue = \[timeStampObj stringValue\];

I call this in the app and it doesn't work.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Miscellaneous/Foundation_Constants/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/constant_group/URL_Loading_System_Error_Codes

NSURLErrorUserAuthenticationRequired = -1013
NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1013

I can't get the MD5 from Python to match the ObjC one.

I can't get it to work with CocoaRestClient or ObjC.

Then I realise I've got my keys swapped, d'oh!

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