Transition from manual session tokens to SSL

[Philby]

I access the betfair api using python code in a jupyter notebook. Up to now I manually type the session token into the 'header' each time, but I want to transition away from the need to do that - and instead use SSL.

I followed the steps at the URL below, to set up SSL

https://betfair-developer-docs.atlas...iveLoginSample

and successfully was able to run the code below

#!/usr/bin/env python
 
import requests
 
#openssl x509 -x509toreq -in certificate.crt -out CSR.csr -signkey privateKey.key
 
 
payload = 'username=myusername&password=password'
headers = {'X-Application': 'SomeKey', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
 
resp = requests.post('[URL]https://identitysso-cert.betfair.com/api/certlogin'[/URL], data=payload, cert=('client-2048.crt', 'client-2048.key'), headers=headers)
 
if resp.status_code == 200:
  resp_json = resp.json()
  print resp_json['loginStatus']
  print resp_json['sessionToken']
else:
  print "Request failed."​

Which returned 'SUCCESS' and my session token for the 2 lines below

print(resp_json['loginStatus'])
print(resp_json['sessionToken'])

I now want to adjust all of my python code in my various jupyter notebooks, so that they login using SSL and retire the use of manually copied & pasted session tokens.

I tried adjusting the code below in various ways but always ran into errors

Original code

Where APP_KEY_HERE and SESSION_TOKEN_HERE are manually typed in my local version.

## Fetch competition IDs

header = { 'X-Application' : 'APP_KEY_HERE', 'X-Authentication' : 'SESSION_TOKEN_HERE=' ,'content-type' : 'application/json' }
endpoint = "https://api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/rest/v1.0/"

json_req_lC='{"filter":{ "eventTypeIds" : [1] }}, "id": 1}'
url_lC = endpoint + "listCompetitions/"

response_listCompetitions = requests.post(url_lC, data=json_req_lC, headers=header)

listCompetitions_data = response_listCompetitions.json()

competition_ids = []
competition_names = []
competition_regions = []

for item in listCompetitions_data:
competition_ids.append(item['competition']['id'])
competition_names.append(item['competition']['name'])
competition_regions.append(item['competitionRegion'])

df_competitions = pd.DataFrame({'Comp ID': competition_ids, 'Comp Name': competition_names, 'Comp Region': competition_regions})
df_competitions = df_competitions .sort_values('Comp Region', ascending=True)

df_competitions.head()

Q: How do I adjust this code to make use of the SSL to call "https://api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/rest/v1.0/"?