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I'm trying to use requests.post to trigger the restart endpoint for an always on task. I'm getting "Unexpected status code: 301" Moved Permanently response (using allow_redirects=False for debugging).

Here's my code. I couldn't find any examples of this, and the API documentation is pretty limited.

import requests
username = '<username>'
token = '<token>'
host = 'www.pythonanywhere.com'

response = requests.post(
    'https://{host}/api/v0/user/{username}/always_on/46244/restart'.format(host=host, username=username),
    headers={'Authorization': 'Token {token}'.format(token=token)},
    allow_redirects=False)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print('CPU quota info:')
    print(response.content)
else:
    print('Got unexpected status code {}: {!r}'.format(response.status_code, response.content))

Try with 'https://{host}/api/v0/user/{username}/always_on/46244/restart/ with / at the end.

Thanks! Now I get a 500 error with an html file returned that says, among other things, "Sorry, there was an error connecting to the server." What am I doing wrong?

Also: I got the same response whether I allowed redirects or not.

Make sure that the task id is indeed 46244.

It was a typo in the task ID. Thanks!

Thanks for confirming that!