import requests
import hmac
import hashlib
import base64
import time
import json
# To get the GMT time
stringdataformat = ("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT")
datenow = time.gmtime()
date = time.strftime(dataformat, datenow)
print(date) api_key = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
# Enter your API key
api_secret = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
# Enter your API secret
group_id = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
# Enter your group Id
api_token = api_secret.encode()
path = "https://rms-world-check-one-api-pilot.thomsonreuters.com/v2/cases/screeningRequest"
gatewayurl = "/v2/"
gatewayhost = "rms-world-check-one-api-pilot.thomsonreuters.com"
content_type = "application/json"
name1 = "putin"
entity_type = "INDIVIDUAL"
bcontent = "{\n\"secondaryFields\": [],\n \"entityType\": \"" + entity_type + "\",\n \"customFields\": [],\n \"groupId\":\"" + group_id + "\",\n \"providerTypes\": [\n \"WATCHLIST\"\n ],\n \"name\": \"" + name1 + "\"}"
content = bcontent.encode('utf-8')length = len(content)
str_length = str(length)
datatosign = "(request-target): post " + gatewayurl + "cases/screeningRequest\n" + \ "host: " + gatewayhost + "\n" + \ "date: " + date + "\n" + \ "content-type: " + content_type + "\n" + \ "content-length: " + str_length + "\n" + \ content.decode()
byte_datatosign = datatosign.encode()
def hbase(byte_datatosign, api_token):
encrypt = hmac.new(api_token, byte_datatosign, digestmod=hashlib.sha256)
digest_maker = encrypt.digest()
base = base64.b64encode(digest_maker)
return base.decode()
hmacbase = hbase(byte_datatosign, api_token)
print(hmacbase)
authorisation = "Signature keyId=\"" + api_key + "\"" + ",algorithm=\"hmac-sha256\"" + ",headers=\"(request-target) host date content-type content-length\"" + ",signature=\"" + hmacbase + "\""
print(authorisation)
headers = { 'Authorization': authorisation, 'Date': date, 'Content-Type': content_type, 'Content-Length': str_length, 'Accept': "*/*", 'Cache-Control': "no-cache", 'Host': "rms-world-check-one-api-pilot.thomsonreuters.com", 'Accept-Encoding': "gzip, deflate", 'Connection': "keep-alive", 'cache-control': "no-cache"}
requests.post(path, data=content, headers=headers)
I'm trying to make a screening request with the following code with python and it keeps returning 401 errors. What am I doing wrong?