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I can successfully place a very simple query in the interactive client, as well as using cURL:


query{account{id, name}}

But when I place the same query using Python, I get the following response:


'{"errors":[{"message":"No query string was present"}],"account_id":XXXXXXX}'

The API authentication works, because I am getting my account id back with the response. But every method I use returns “No query string was present”. Any ideas?


My relevant code snippet:


headers = {"Authorization" : creds.api_token}



request = requests.post(creds.monday_api_url,

                        json={"query" : "{account{id, name}}"},

                        headers=headers)



if request.status_code == 200:

    return request.json()

else:

    raise Exception(

    """

    Query failed to run by returning code of {}. {}

    """.format(request.status_code, query))

Hey @jmeehan – welcome to the community!


I built a little Python program last week and used this function to create a new item. Looks like I’m also passing the data as a dict, and works fine:


def add_to_board(name, status="", high_tag="", low_tag="", link=""):

	headers = {"Authorization" : monday_key}

	monday_url = 'https://api.monday.com/v2'

	

	# store column data in a dict

	column_data = {"link" : {"url" : link, "text" : "ZD Link"}, "status1" : status, "high_level9" : high_tag, "low_level3" : low_tag}



	# store request body in a dict, including variables

	req_data = {"query" : "mutation($name: String!, $columns: JSON!)\\

				{create_item(item_name:$name, board_id:XXXX, column_values:$columns) \\

				{name id column_values {id value}}\\

				}",



                # send columns as a variable to prevent string manipulation

				"variables" : {"name" : name, "columns" : json.dumps(column_data)}} 



	r = requests.post(url=monday_url, json=req_data, headers=headers)

	if r.status_code != 200:

		print('Status:', response.status_code)

		raise Exception("Add to board failed.")

Let me know if that helps! I’ll post the rest of my code as a little example and tutorial later this week 🙂

Thanks for the quick reply!


I have also tried the query without the outer brackets:


json={'query' : 'account{id}'}

And received the same result… I’ve also tried a few other variations including:


json={'query':'query{account{id}}'}

Unfortunately, I keep receiving the same error message.

Hey @jmeehan – thanks for the context.


I opened up a Python interpreter and did exactly what you’re doing, and received the data:

27%20AM


I did try without the outer braces and that didn’t work. You do need to include the outer braces.


However, I think there’s something else going on here – a “no query string was present” error means the server thinks the body of your request is empty. If there was a syntax error, you’d receive a ParseError like this:

07%20AM


Are you using any middleware that might change the request before it is sent to our server? What version of Python or requests are you using?

Well, this is interesting - If I make the request in the terminal just as you did, the query is successful and I get the account information back.


However, when I run the same exact code in my script, I get an error message. There must be something else going on that I need to troubleshoot.


Python==3.7.3

requests==2.22.0

Oh interesting! Looks like there might be something else happening here. Do let us know what the solve here is, and if you need anything else ☀️

Well, I’ve got things working now - embarrassingly, the URL I was using was: http://api.monday.com/v2, when it should have been https://api.monday.com/v2


Thanks for your help!

😬

Hey John! No worries, it happens 😀 Glad to know I’m not the only one who takes https:// for granted! 🥉

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