Requests example for ActiveCampaign API

import requests

def format_url_keys(name, items):
    return ['{name}[{x}]'.format(name=name, x=x) for x in items]

def get_formatted_fields(name, keys, values=None):
    values = values is not None and values or keys
    return dict(zip(format_url_keys(name, keys), values))


api_url = "http://mailer.blah.com.au/admin/api.php"
api_key = "..."

# define the request paramaters for a 'subscriber_view' call
# the 'id' is an email
view_params = {'api_key': api_key, 'api_action': 'subscriber_view',
                      'api_output': 'json', 'id': user.email}

# do our GET call to the API
r = requests.get(api_url, params=view_params)
# get the returned JSON as dict
subscriber = r.json()

# if the subscriber dict doesn't have 'lists' then it is not subscribed to anything
if not 'lists' in subscriber:
                    add_params = {'api_key': api_key, 'api_action': 'subscriber_add',
                      'api_output': 'json'}
                    # the payload should be the subscriber details and any lists
                    add_payload = {'email': user.email,
                                    'first_name': user.firstName,
                                    'last_name': user.lastName}
                    # this bit is confusing, AC has a very weird way of handling listids and status
                    # listids is just a list of ids as strings and yep both p and status are required
                    add_payload.update(get_formatted_fields('p', listids, listids))
                    add_payload.update(get_formatted_fields('status', listids, [1] * len(listids)))

                    # finally do the call
                    r = requests.post(api_url, params=add_params, data=add_payload)
                    result = r.json()
                    # any logging or result verification etc.