Get request Activities for strava v3 api python

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edit - as I couldn't tag this with Strava here are the docs if you're interested - http://strava.github.io/api/ I get through the authentication fine and gain the access_token (and my athlete info) in a response.read. I'm having problems with the next step: I want to return information about a specific activity. ``` import urllib2 import urllib access_token = str(tp[3]) #this comes from the response not shown print access_token ath_url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/108838256' ath_val = values={'access_token':access_token} ath_data = urllib.urlencode (ath_val) ath_req = urllib2.Request(ath_url, ath_data) ath_response = urllib2.urlopen(ath_req) the_page = ath_response.read() print the_page ``` error is ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\documents\strava\auth.py", line 30, in <module> ath_response = urllib2.urlopen(ath_req) File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File…

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I prefer using the third-party Requests module. You do indeed need to follow the documentation and use the Authorization: Header documented in the API

Requests has an arg for header data. We can then create a dict where the key is `Authorization` and its value is a single string `Bearer access_token`

```
#install requests from pip if you want
import requests as r
url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/108838256'
header = {'Authorization': 'Bearer access_token'}
r.get(url, headers=header).json()
```

If you really want to use urllib2

```
#using urllib2
import urllib2
req = urllib.Request(url)
req.add_header('Authorization', 'Bearer access_token')
resp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
content = resp.read()
```

Just remember `access_token` needs to be the literal string value, eg acc09cds09c097d9c097v9

Get request Activities for strava v3 api python

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