Finally a Clean HTTP Get for Xively Data

import json
import urllib
import httplib

xivelyhost = 'api.xively.com'
feedurl = '/v2/feeds/1703619548'
feedid = '170361954'
apikey = 'EsTjqWQlHyj69kBKBYbtoanldlKxAb7HalVxzW5ef2V5x296' # Read-Only Key

#
# Example 1: Pulling JSON Feed from my read-only APIKey URL
#

#params = urllib.urlencode({'datastream': 'CO,NO2,Dust,Temperature,Humidity'))
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "application/json", "X-ApiKey": apikey}
http = httplib.HTTPConnection(xivelyhost)
http.request("GET", feedurl , '', headers)
response = http.getresponse()
print(response.status, response.reason)

eggdata = json.load(response)

http.close()


print("Example 1")
eggdata

#
# get to the sensible parts of the data, quick
#
datastream_keys = ('CO','Dust','NO2','Temperature','Humidity')
eggdict = {datastream['id'] : datastream['current_value'] for datastream in eggdata['datastreams'] if (datastream['id'] in datastream_keys)}

print eggdict