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API from pythonanywhere.com not working as expected

Hola estoy haciendo tests con https://pythonanywhere.com y he intentado crear una función para cambiar las tareas programadas.

Aquí la documentación de la API: https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/API/

Primero obtengo el id de la tarea programada

username = os.environ.get('USER', 'XXX')
token = os.environ.get('API_TOKEN', 'XXX')

response = requests.get(
    'https://www.pythonanywhere.com/api/v0/user/{username}/schedule/'.format(
        username=username
    ),
    headers={'Authorization': 'Token {token}'.format(token=token)}
)


idcron = response.json()[0].get("id")

Y luego intento cambiar la hora

    params = {'command': response.json()[0].get("command"),
        'enabled': response.json()[0].get("enabled"),
        'interval': response.json()[0].get("interval"),
        'hour': 11,
        'minute': 25
    }

    response = requests.put(
        'https://www.pythonanywhere.com/api/v0/user/{username}/schedule/{idcron}'.format(
            username=username, idcron=idcron
        ),
        headers={'Authorization': 'Token {token}'.format(token=token)},
        params=params
    )

Y tengo el siguiente fallo

>>> response.text
'{"interval":["This field is required."],"command":["This field is required."],"minute":["This field is required."]}'

He probado de todo pero siempre tengo esta respuesta.

PD: Estoy ejecutando este scrip dentro de la consola de pythonanywhere en la misma cuenta que quiero cambiar la tarea programada.

deleted-user-6707833 | 2 posts | Jan. 8, 2020, 6:50 p.m. | permalink

Use the patch method, not put.

Looks like our docs are confusing and should be corrected. Thanks for the report.

Staff fjl | 5114 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 9, 2020, 12:36 p.m. | permalink

I am attempting to use Patch instead and when sending 

params={'enabled': False}

none of the tasks change their status even though I get a successful response back.

Beloved premium user JBalloonist | 19 posts | March 8, 2025, 10:56 p.m. | permalink

Could you give more context of how you do it?

Staff fjl | 5114 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 9, 2025, 4:07 p.m. | permalink

Here is the full function. I get the task data directly from doing a GET on the scheduled tasks. That is working no problem. 

def pause(task, username, token):                                                                                                      
    task['enabled'] = False                                                                                                            
    print(task)                                                                                                                        
    response = requests.patch(                                                                                                         
    'https://www.pythonanywhere.com/api/v0/user/{username}/schedule/{taskid}/'.format(                                                 
        username=username,                                                                                                             
        taskid=task['id']
    ),
    headers={'Authorization': 'Token {token}'.format(token=token)},
    params={'enabled': False},
    )
    print(response.content)
Beloved premium user JBalloonist | 19 posts | March 9, 2025, 7:15 p.m. | permalink

Try using: 

json={'enabled': False}

Instead of 

params={'enabled': False}
Staff nkahr | 727 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 10, 2025, 9:55 a.m. | permalink

Thanks, that did the trick.

Beloved premium user JBalloonist | 19 posts | March 10, 2025, 4:39 p.m. | permalink

Great, thanks for confirming!

Staff giles | 12766 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 10, 2025, 7:08 p.m. | permalink