REST post from Python

Development
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I am trying to call a turn_on through services on my relay from Python. This is my python code:

import requests as req
headers = {'x-ha-access': ':-P', 'content-type': 'application/json'}
url = 'http://localhost:8123/api/services/turn_on'
data = 'service_data={"entity_id": "switch.relay_3"}'
response = req.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)
print(response.text)

All I get is 404: Not Found…

I tried the data as follows also

data = {“entity_id”: “switch.relay_3”}
data = ‘{“entity_id”: “switch.relay_3”}’

those did not work either.

2

Ok - figured out what I messed up:

url = 'http://localhost:8123/api/services/switch/turn_on'

I did not have the switch in there

3

Yep… the syntax is /api/services/<device_domain>/<service>