requests-websub-auth 0.0.5

Implements WebSub X-Hub-Signature authentication for the Python Requests library

requests-websub-auth

A micro-library providing WebSub HMAC Signature authentication for webhooks.

The HMAC signature is generated using a secret and the webhook body. It is placed in the X-Hub-Signature header in the format <algorithm>=<hmac_signature>, where the hmac_signature is a hexdigest.

Supports all of the algorithms detailed in the WebSub specification.

Installation

pip install requests-websub-auth

Usage

import requests
from requests_websub_auth import WebSubAuth, WebSubAlgorithm

auth = WebSubAuth("secret", WebSubAlgorithm.SHA256)
payload = {
    "foo": 1,
    "bar": 2
}

response = requests.post("https://foobar.com/", auth=auth, json=payload)
response.raise_for_status()