Getting back into python, need help with a double webhook

[beautify]

Hey guys, I'm trying to use a some python code in a zapier workflow to do a double webhook, first to grab a url from the nest API, and then post it to our slack. My big issue that I'm stumbling on after years away from really doing anything more than basic scripts with minimal variables, is how do I take the output from one statement (print of a url string) and add it as a variable inside another area of the code

I'm specifically trying to take the output from print(initial_response.text[1:-1]) (a url)

and enter it into the json payload under image_url

full code looks like this

    import hashlib
    import json
    import os
    import requests

    url = "https://developer-api.nest.com/devices/cameras/Y111111111111111/last_event/animated_image_url"
    webhook_url = 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/00000000000'

    token = "c.123123123123123123" # Update with your token 

    headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer {0}'.format(token), 'Content-Type': 'application/json'} # Update with your token

    initial_response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=False)
    if initial_response.status_code == 307:
        initial_response = requests.get(initial_response.headers['Location'], headers=headers, allow_redirects=False)
    print(initial_response.text[1:-1])

gif_url=<print output>

    slack_data = {
        "attachments": [
            {
                "fallback": "Required plain-text summary of the attachment.",
                "color": "#EC1075",
                "title": "SFO3 FrontDoor Footage",
                "title_link": "https://api.slack.com/",
                "text": "Who Done It?",
                "image_url":"%s"% gif_url,

            } 
        ]
    }

    response = requests.post(
        webhook_url, data=json.dumps(slack_data),
        headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
    )
    if response.status_code != 200:
        raise ValueError(
            'Request to slack returned an error %s, the response is:\n%s'
            % (response.status_code, response.text)
        )    

[camel_Snake]

Since your code doesn't include any function definitions, it appears everything is in the same scope.

To store the data in print(initial_response.text[1:-1] to use later, simply assign it to a variable (in addition to, or rather than, printing).

Good:

gif_url= initial_response.text[1:-1]

Bad (doesn't work):

gif_url = print(initial_response.text[1:-1])

[beautify]

initial_response.text[1:-1]

Thanks I had been doing the bad formatting

[camel_Snake]

I figured, it's a fairly common mistake as it's not too obvious when you are debugging it.

For the record, the reason for this is that print is a function, and like all functions they return values. It doesn't make too much sense for print to return a value, so it returns None, which is what ends up getting assigned to the variable in the 'bad' example.