unable to decode Python web request

Question

I am trying to make web request to my trading account . Python is unable to decode the web request. Web request is successful with code - 200.

Here is the code below

import requests

headers = {
    'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
    'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
    'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36',
    'x-kite-version': '1.2.1',
    'accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
    'referer': 'https://kite.zerodha.com/orders',
    'authority': 'kite.zerodha.com',
    'cookie': '__cfduid=db8fb54c76c53442fb672dee32ed58aeb1521962031; _ga=GA1.2.1516103745.1522000590; _gid=GA1.2.581693731.1522462921; kfsession=CfawFIZq2T6SghlCd8FZegqFjNIKCYuO; public_token=7FyfBbbxhiRRUso3425TViK2VmVszMCK; user_id=XE4670',
    'x-csrftoken': '7FyfBbbxhiRRUso3425TViK2VmVszMCK',
}

response = requests.get('https://kite.zerodha.com/api/orders', headers=headers)


x=str(response.content.decode("utf-8") )

---

b"1X\x14\x00 \xfe\xa7\x9b\xd3\xca\xbd9-\x12\x83\xbfULS1\x1d8\x9d\x0e\xd4\xcf\xbd\xb8\xd1\xbd4\xc0\x00\x13~\x94}\xe4\x81\xa4\x90P\x1cfs\xcd\x1e\xaeG\x9b},m\xbd\t\x84L1\xde\xa8e\x8a\xf1h\x0e\x0c)\x1a\x12\xfb\x06z\xec\x18\xe4r\xa1\x1c\x11\xe8 \xbcO\xec\xe2|\xa6\x90\xa9\xdf\xf2\xe1\xfa\xf3\x1e\x04\x0e\xa2\x8d\x0e\xc4\tw\xeb\xd9\xba\n\xf1H'l\xeb>\x08\x85L\r\x0cY\xf8\x81D;\x92!o\xfd\xbd\xe3u>3\x10\xe1\x8c;\xb8\x9e\xceA\xae\x0exX\xc9\x19s\xeb\xe5r~1\x98\xed0\xb8\xdc\xb4\x17:\x14\x96xAn\xb9\xf0\xce\xf2l\\xa6G?5O\x9b\xf3\xc1\\x1f\x0f\x8fs\x1b/\x17\x1a\x0c[ySAX\x1d'\xe7\xbb\nx\xacR~\xbb\x9f\xe0\x8c?s\xc0\x8f\xe0\x97\xff\xde'\xc7#\x8f\x97\xaf\xaa%\xf2\xf9\xfaC|\xcf\t\xf3\xeb\xaa\xdcs\xcc\xf5\xa3RM\xbaOY\xf5\x9fe\xfc\x07\xff\x01"

Unable to decode this. Tried unicode- utf 8 and various codes available on the stakoverflow but its failed.

Answer 1

According to the response.headers (that you did not provide, but that are easily recoverable by running your code), the response is encoded using Brotli compression (Content-Encoding': 'br'). You can decompress it with brotlipy:

import brotli
brotli.decompress(response.content)
#b'{"status":"success","data":[{"placed_by":"XE4670","order_id":"180331000000385",  
#"exchange_order_id":null,"parent_order_id":null,"status":"REJECTED",
#"status_message":"ADAPTER is down","order_timestamp":"2018-03-31 07:59:42", 
#"exchange_update_timestamp":null,...}

Now, it's JSON, as promised ('Content-Type': 'application/json').