Python Social Media Analytics

Step 4 - testing the connection

Once we have successfully obtained the access token, we can make a test request to check if everything works correctly. To do this, we will use a simple endpoint returning the information about the authorized user.

url = 'https://api.pinterest.com/v1/me' 
params = {'access_token': 'xxx'} 
 
response = requests.get(url = url, params = params) 
 
print(response, response.reason) 
print(response.json()) 

The first print command should display the connection status. If the connection is working correctly, we get the following:

<Response [200]> OK

The next print command will display the authorized user's details, shown as follows:

{'data': {'first_name': NAME, 'id': 'YOUR_ID', 'last_name': LASTNAME', 'url': 'https://www.pinterest.com/USERNAME/'}} ...