pip install requests

# Simple example: Making HTTP request
import requests
requests.get("https://api.github.com")

# Output
<Response [200]>

import requests
from pprint import pprint

router = {"ip": "10.10.21.48",
      "port": "443",
          "user": "cisco",
          "pass": "cisco_1234!"}

headers = {"Accept": "application/yang-data+json"}

u = "https://{}:{}/restconf/data/interfaces/interface=GigabitEthernet1"

u = u.format(router["ip"], router["port"])

r = requests.get(u,
     headers = headers,
     auth=(router["user"], router["pass"]),
     verify=False)

pprint(r.text)

import json

api_data = r.json()

interface_name = api_data["Cisco-IOS-XE-interfaces-oper:interface"]["name"]

interface_name