API question - How to REST request with Python

Question

I'm making an API REST request using Python. And I encountered the following html result that says "Service - Endpoint not found. Please see the service help page for constructing valid requests to the service"

How can I fix this issue?

Note: This API can help determine whether an individual address is up to date by inputting individual address, first name, last name, etc.

Python query

import requests
import json

url = 'https://smartmover.melissadata.net/v3/WEB/SmartMover/doSmartMover/'
payload = {'t': '1353', 'id': 'sw38hs47u', 'jobid': '1', 'act': 'NCOA, CCOA', 'cols': 'TransmissionResults,TransmissionReference, Version, TotalRecords,CASSReportLink,NCOAReportLink,Records,AddressExtras,AddressKey,AddressLine1,AddressLine2,AddressTypeCode,BaseMelissaAddressKey,CarrierRoute,City,CityAbbreviation,CompanyName,CountryCode,CountryName,DeliveryIndicator,DeliveryPointCheckDigit,DeliveryPointCode,MelissaAddressKey,MoveEffectiveDate,MoveTypeCode,PostalCode,RecordID,Results,State,StateName,Urbanization', 'opt': 'ProcessingType: Standard', 'List': 'test', 'full': 'PATEL MANISH', 'first':'MANISH','last':'PATEL', 'a1':'1600 S 5TH ST', 'a2':'1600 S 5TH ST', 'city':'Austin', 'state': 'TX', 'postal': '78704', 'ctry': 'USA'}

response = requests.get(url, params=payload)

print (response.text)

Result

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>Service</title>
    <style>BODY { color: #000000; background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } #content { margin-left: 30px; font-size: .70em; padding-bottom: 2em; } A:link { color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; } A:visited { color: #6699cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; } A:active { color: #336699; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; } .heading1 { background-color: #003366; border-bottom: #336699 6px solid; color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal;margin: 0em 0em 10px -20px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 30px;padding-top: 16px;} pre { font-size:small; background-color: #e5e5cc; padding: 5px; font-family: Courier New; margin-top: 0px; border: 1px #f0f0e0 solid; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; } table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana;} table th { border-right: 2px white solid; border-bottom: 2px white solid; font-weight: bold; background-color: #cecf9c;} table td { border-right: 2px white solid; border-bottom: 2px white solid; background-color: #e5e5cc;}</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="content">
      <p class="heading1">Service</p>
      <p xmlns="">Endpoint not found. Please see the <a rel="help-page" href="https://smartmover.melissadata.net/v3/WEB/SmartMover/help">service help page</a> for constructing valid requests to the service.</p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
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Answer 1

Remove the / at the end of the url:

import requests
import json

url = 'https://smartmover.melissadata.net/v3/WEB/SmartMover/doSmartMover' # <<<
payload = {'t': '1353', 'id': 'sw38hs47u', 'jobid': '1', ...}
response = requests.get(
    url, params=payload,
    headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'} # Using JSON here for readability in the response
)

print (response.text)

Output:

{
    "CASSReportLink": "",
    "NCOAReportLink": "",
    "Records": [],
    "TotalRecords": "",
    "TransmissionReference": "1353",
    "TransmissionResults": "SE20",
    "Version": "4.0.4.48"
}

API question - How to REST request with Python

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1 answers

solution1
0 ACCPTED 2018-10-26 18:08:58

API question - How to REST request with Python

Question

1 answers

solution1 0 ACCPTED 2018-10-26 18:08:58

solution1
0 ACCPTED 2018-10-26 18:08:58