adding in base repo with not implemented functions

testing.py

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+import requests
+import os
+import json
+
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from pprint import pprint
+
+load_dotenv()
+
+#endpoint definitions - should be loaded form the env if possible, woudl make it easily maintaine from docker
+ACE_ENDPOINT = "https://api-endpoint.mta.info/Dataservice/mtagtfsfeeds/nyct%2Fgtfs-ace"
+SUBWAY_ALERTS = "https://api-endpoint.mta.info/Dataservice/mtagtfsfeeds/camsys%2Fsubway-alerts"
+SUBWAY_ALERTS_JSON = "https://api-endpoint.mta.info/Dataservice/mtagtfsfeeds/camsys%2Fsubway-status.json"
+
+
+def create_api_call_header(api_key):
+    return {
+        "x-api-key":api_key
+    }
+
+
+def test_api_calls():
+    print("Testing the api")
+    api_key = os.getenv('MTA_API_KEY', '')
+    r = requests.get(
+        SUBWAY_ALERTS_JSON,
+        headers=create_api_call_header(api_key)
+    )
+    print(r)
+    print(r.status_code)
+    pprint(r.json())
+    with open("mta_status_alerts.json", "w+") as f:
+        f.write(json.dumps(r.json()))
+
+
+
+    r = requests.get(
+        ACE_ENDPOINT,
+        headers=create_api_call_header(api_key)
+    )
+    print(r)
+    print(r.status_code)
+    print(r.content)
+
+    # alerts_data = json.loads()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    test_api_calls()