Access our API using cURL

General syntax

                  
                    $ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X \
                      POST -d \
                      '{"email_text":"SAMPLE EMAIL TEXT"}' \
                      https://plino.herokuapp.com/api/v1/classify/
                  
                

Example

                  
                    $ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
                    -X POST -d \
                    '{"email_text":"Dear Tasdik, I would like to immediately transfer 10000 thousand dollars to your account as my beloved husband has expired and I have nobody to ask for to transfer the money to your account. I come from the family of the royal prince of burkino fasa and I would be more than obliged to take your help on this matter. Would you care to share your bank account details with me in the next email conversation that we have? -regards -Liah herman"}' \
                    https://plino.herokuapp.com/api/v1/classify/
                  
                

JSON Output

                  
                    {
                      "email_class": "spam",
                      "email_text": "Dear Tasdik, I would like to immediately transfer 10000 thousand dollars to your account as my beloved husband has expired and I have nobody to ask for to transfer the money to your account. I come from the family of the royal prince of burkino fasa and I would be more than obliged to take your help on this matter. Would you care to share your bank account details with me in the next email conversation that we have? -regards -Liah herman", 
                      "status": 200
                    }
                  
                

Using the Python 3 Standard Library

requests module really makes our life easy and I use it all the time. But **sigh**, there should be an example using the standard library so here it is

General Syntax

                  
                 >>> import urllib.request
                 >>> import json
                 >>> import pprint 
                 >>>
                 >>> url = "https://plino.herokuapp.com/api/v1/classify/"
                 >>> req = urllib.request.Request(url)
                 >>> req.add_header(
                        'Content-Type',
                        'application/json; charset=utf-8'
                    )
                 >>>
                 >>> body = \
                 {'email_text': 'Dear Tasdik, I would like to immediately transfer 10000 '
                                'thousand dollars to your account as my beloved husband has '
                                'expired and I have nobody to ask for to transfer the money '
                                'to your account. I come from the family of the royal prince '
                                'of burkino fasa and I would be more than obliged to take '
                                'your help on this matter. Would you care to share your bank '
                                'account details with me in the next email conversation that '
                                'we have? -regards -Liah herman'
                 }
                 >>> json_data = json.dumps(body).encode('utf-8')   # needs to be bytes
                 >>> req.add_header('Content-Length', len(json_data))
                 >>>
                 >>> with urllib.request.urlopen(req, json_data) as f:
                 ...   print(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
                 ... 
                 {
                   "email_class": "spam", 
                   "email_text": "Dear Tasdik, I would like to immediately transfer 10000 thousand dollars to your account as my beloved husband has expired and I have nobody to ask for to transfer the money to your account. I come from the family of the royal prince of burkino fasa and I would be more than obliged to take your help on this matter. Would you care to share your bank account details with me in the next email conversation that we have? -regards -Liah herman", 
                   "status": 200
                 }
                 >>>