Question: I keep getting 400 errors when trying to query the API with my code

Hey. Its my first time writing any API. I'm kind of a beginner-to-middling coder, but our college required we complete a unit on distributed systems and I'm the only one who can code in the group I was assigned.

So I'm writing something to query the GiantBomb for information about games using python, flask and urllib3. However, I keep getting 400 responses to queries I make. If i post the generated url string into postman or chrome, it works fine though. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

The Code in question

def apiConnection(self,remoteResourcePath,apiFields, filters):

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

print (remoteResourcePath)

#key to access the api

apiKey =[redacted]

#format incoming data as json, expand fields as nessecary.

#TODO: add additional logic if nessescary.

uri = 'http://www.giantbomb.com/api/'+ remoteResourcePath + '?api_key=%s&format=json' % (apiKey) \

+'&filter=%s' % (filters)\

+'&field_list=%s' %(apiFields)

print (uri)

try:

r= http.request(

'GET',

uri,

headers = {"User-Agent": 'Flask-Restful API'})

if r.status == 200: #we have valid data

returndata = {"status": True, "data": json.loads(r.data.decode('utf8'))}

else:

print (r.data)

returndata = {"status": False, "data": r.status}

except Exception as e:

returndata = {"status":False, "data":"There was a problem with urllib3 %s" % (e)}

return returndata

The URLS It produces

http://www.giantbomb.com/api/games?api_key=[redacted]&format=json&filter=name:the matrix&field_list=name,original_release_date,original_game_rating,site_detail_url,image

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