import requests from django.conf import settings API_PATH = "https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/{0}/posts/slug:{1}" def build_url(slug): if not slug: return return API_PATH.format(settings.WORDPRESS_URL, slug) def get_post(slug): if not slug: return response = requests.get(build_url(slug)) if response.status_code != 200: return data = response.json() return data if "ID" in data else False