Calling Plumber APIs from Python

Requirements

To call APIs hosted in RStudio Connect from Python, you'll need:

1. URL for the API endpoint hosted on RStudio Connect
2. API key (if your API requires authorization)

Python Example

You can use the requests package in Python to call Plumber APIs from Python scripts or Jupyter Notebooks:

import requests

connect_api_url = "https://connect.yourcompany.com/rest-api/route"
connect_api_key = "YfB5XBRB7slkkBSEi5qr93mWJvbpXQQy"

response = requests.get(connect_api_url,
                        headers={'Authorization': 'Key ' + connect_api_key})
print(response.text)

You can replace the values of connect_api_url and connect_api_key with your API URL and API key from RStudio Connect.

Scope

The code examples assume that you are calling a published API in RStudio Connect that is:

• Hosted on a secure server with TLS/SSL at an HTTPS endpoint
• Using an API key to make an authorized call to an API
• Making an HTTP GET request to the API

If your use case is different, then you can modify the example code accordingly.