I have been trying to integrate DHL API into my Django project but I keep getting error with 401 error code. I have created an app on the DHL developer portal and it has been approved so I have my API Key. I don't know what is wrong. Let me attach a simple code I tested with.

class DHLApiView(APIView):

    def get(self, request):
        import requests
        
        url = "https://api-test.dhl.com/track/shipments"
        headers = {
            "DHL-API-Key": settings.DHL_API_Key,
        }
        params = {
            "trackingNumber": "00340434292135100186",
            "limit": 5,
        }

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

        if response.status_code == 200:
            dhl_data = response.json()
            print(dhl_data)
        else:
            print(f"Error: {response.status_code} - {response.text}"

        return ApiResponse(200).response()

add your imports let me check. Then place the import requests outside the class

Does python allows import in a class method? 😳😱

Karleb:
Does python allows import in a class method? 😳😱

yes, is it a bad practice sir, or does it has any use cases?

Tunagy:
yes, is it a bad practice sir, or does it has any use cases?

I honestly don't know. I'm just surprised it's possible. It looks like witchcraft to me. Lol

The APIView is a cbv to handle incoming requests to your web app and responds appropriately. Why are you sending requests to a third party API inside of it?

Ononugo:
I have been trying to integrate DHL API into my Django project but I keep getting error with 401 error code. I have created an app on the DHL developer portal and it has been approved so I have my API Key. I don't know what is wrong. Let me attach a simple code I tested with.

class DHLApiView(APIView):

    def get(self, request):
        import requests
        
        url = "https://api-test.dhl.com/track/shipments"
        headers = {
            "DHL-API-Key": settings.DHL_API_Key,
        }
        params = {
            "trackingNumber": "00340434292135100186",
            "limit": 5,
        }

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

        if response.status_code == 200:
            dhl_data = response.json()
            print(dhl_data)
        else:
            print(f"Error: {response.status_code} - {response.text}"

        return ApiResponse(200).response()

401 that's your request is not authorized.
Check whether if DHL-API-Key is not empty or maybe it might be the way you are trying to get response.
Try this response = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)

Tunagy:
yes, is it a bad practice sir, or does it has any use cases?

There are times it is necessary