Creating URL's in for loop by picking values from list in Python

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In order to create get-requests I create a Python script. In order to create the URL’s for this request I have made the following code:

today = str(datetime.date.today())
start = str(datetime.date.today()- datetime.timedelta (days=30))

report = ["Shifts",
          "ShiftStops",
          "ShiftStopDetailsByProcessDate",
          "TimeRegistrations",
          "ShiftsByProcessDate",
          "ShiftStopsByProcessDate",
          ]

for x in report:
    url_data = "https://URL"+ report + "?from=" + start + "&until=" + today
    data = requests.get(url_data, headers = {'Host': 'services.URL.com', 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + acces_token})

But the error I get is:

TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "list") to str

What can I do to solve this and create 6 unique url’s?

p.s. I have added the word URL to the URL’s in order to anonymize my post.

Asked By: Catscanner

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Answer 1

Where you’re going wrong is in the following line:

url_data = "https://URL"+ report + "?from=" + start + "&until=" + today

Specifically, you use report which is the entire list. What you’ll want to do is use x instead, i.e. the string in the list.

Also you’ll want to indent the next line, so altogether it should read:

for x in report:
    url_data = "https://URL"+ x + "?from=" + start + "&until=" + today
    data = requests.get(url_data, headers = {'Host': 'services.URL.com', 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + acces_token})

Answered By: lucasjames92

Answer 2

I have already found the answer. The list of url’s is created by replacing report by x while create the url_data.

url_data = "https://URL"+ x + "?from=" + start + "&until=" + today

Answered By: Catscanner

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