How do I access modern, remote APIs requiring HTTPS?

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Problem

I’m trying to access Food Data Central’s API to retrieve food information, but it tell me I need an HTTPS connection:

usda.base.DataGovApiError: HTTPS_REQUIRED: Requests must be made over HTTPS. Try accessing the API at: https://api.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search?q=eggs&max=10&offset=0&sort=r&api_key={FDC_API_KEY}&format=json

Here’s the code snippet doing the requesting:

@app.post("/")
async def index(request: Request, food_name: str = Form(...)):

    eggs = client.search_foods("eggs", 10)
    print(next(eggs))

    eggs_data = client.get_food_report(eggs.id)
    print(eggs_data)
    data = requests.get("https://api.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search?q=eggs&max=10&offset=0&sort=r&api_key={FDC_API_KEY}&format=json")

    return templates.TemplateResponse("foods.html", context={"request": request, "data": data})

What I’ve tried:

Hoverfly Postman Docker Twisted Trustme OpenSSL http-server one or two others I’ve forgotten

I’ve went through the process of making a CA certificate and importing it to the “Trusted Authorities” certificates file in the MMC manager, as well as just trying to use the trustme module, but browsers, and especially the remote API, won’t accept it. Each of these things failed on me for some reason or another, and I need some way to send secure http requests to the USDA database.

Does anyone know of a free method I could implement quickly for testing?

[Hultner]

Just some general pointers.

• You’re using requests which is a sync http client with an async route
  • Either remove your async def from the route
  • Or use an async http client like for instance httpx
• You’ve included an API-key in your question, if this is a personal API key it would be wise to at this point both revoke the key and remove it from the post.
• Is it the request which doesn’t work?
  • I don’t get any certificate errors from that endpoint but I do get an 404, is the URI correct?
• Is the client module an internal thing? You don’t explain it’s purpose but since we don’t know anything about it we can’t know if your error is there.

[Mause]

This looks like an issue with the client library you’re using, not anything to do with fastapi or SSL on your api?