Mobile Commons: API - Python code to dynamically capture the page_count value for the /messages endpoint

Below is a Python code snippet that should allow you to dynamically capture the page_count value from the response of the /messages endpoint. You can embed this into your original code to allow looping over

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

# Define API endpoint and credentials
api_url = "https://secure.mcommons.com/api/messages?"
username = "XXXXXXXX"
password = "XXXXXXXXX"

page_count=1
page=1

while page <= page_count:
    params = {'limit': 5, 'page': page, 'company':"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"}
    response = requests.get(api_url, auth=(username, password), params=params)
    xml_data = response.content
    root = ET.fromstring(xml_data)
    page_count = int(root[0].attrib.get('page_count'))
    page += 1