python google geolocation api using wifi mac

I'm trying to use Google's API for geolocation giving wifi data to determine location. This is their intro. And this is my code

@author: Keith
"""

import requests

payload = {
"considerIp": "false",
"wifiAccessPoints": [
{
"macAddress": "00:25:9c:cf:1c:ac",
"signalStrength": -43,
"signalToNoiseRatio": 0
},
{
"macAddress": "00:25:9c:cf:1c:ad",
"signalStrength": -55,
"signalToNoiseRatio": 0
}
],
'key':'<MyAPIKey>'
}
r = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate',
params=payload)
print(r.text)


This is the output

{
"location": {
"lat": 32.3643098,
"lng": -88.703656
},
"accuracy": 6061.0
}


The request ignored all of the payload except the key portion and just found the geolocation using my IP address. So I'm sending the json payload incorrectly. I know this is probably really simple, but I'm stuck and couldn't find an example of python being used with requests to do this type of API query. Thanks

Edit:
Picked up the cURL library and executed this command with success:

curl -d @your_filename.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" -i "https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=<myapikey>"


and got the output I expected. I just want to be able to do the same thing in requests, but the data I'm trying to send is in "your_filename.json".

2 Answers
2

Please try the following:

r = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key='+ '<MyAPIKey>', json=payload)


Note the key was moved to query params (URL) and json argument was used in place of params.

json

params

Okay I figured out the error of my ways. Taking a better look at requests.post function, I see that I'm not using the parameters argument correctly. After this, it worked perfectly,

r = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate', params=parameters, json=mydata, headers=headers)


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