Problem accessing selenzyme using API with python3 requests.post

[anasves]

I have recently tried to access the Selenzyme using the REST API through python3 as following:

# importing the requests library
import requests
import json

# defining the api-endpoint
url = "http://selenzyme.synbiochem.co.uk/REST"

# data to be sent to api
data = {'db':'rhea', 'rxnid':'10040'}

# sending post request and saving response as response object
r = requests.post(url = url, json =  json.dumps(data))
print(r)
# extracting response text
result = r.text
print(result)

The result I am getting are the following:

<Response [405]>

{"message": "The method is not allowed for the requested URL."}

Could you, please, tell me if I could I access the Selenzyme results using python requests.post method or do I have to apply different approach?

Thank you very much in advance for your response.

[pablocarb]

The way you can access Selenzyme through REST is slightly different. Please try the code below:

# importing the requests library
import requests
import json

# defining the api-endpoint
url = "http://selenzyme.synbiochem.co.uk/REST/Query"

# data to be sent to api
data = {'db':'rhea', 'rxnid':'10040'}

# sending post request and saving response as response object
r = requests.post(url = url, json =  data)

print(r)
# extracting response text
result = json.loads(r.content.decode('utf-8'))
print(result)