import requests

url = "https://{FUSION HOST}/api/history/{service}/items/{item}"

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.text)

{
  "events": [
    {
      "start": "2014-05-16T15:34:49.008Z",
      "end": "2014-05-16T15:34:49.435Z",
      "source": "scheduler",
      "type": "execute",
      "status": "ok",
      "details": {
        "status": 200,
        "entity": "{\n  \"id\" : \"TwitterSearch\",\n  \"dataSourceId\" : \"TwitterSearch\",\n  \"state\" : \"RUNNING\",\n  \"message\" : null,\n  \"startTime\" : 1400254489000,\n  \"endTime\" : -1,\n  \"finished\" : false,\n  \"counters\" : { },\n  \"exception\" : null,\n  \"running\" : true\n}"
      },
      "error": null
    },
    {
      "start": "2014-05-16T15:38:32.536Z",
      "end": "2014-05-16T15:38:32.559Z",
      "source": "scheduler",
      "type": "execute",
      "status": "ok",
      "details": {
        "status": 200,
        "entity": "{\n  \"id\" : \"TwitterSearch\",\n  \"dataSourceId\" : \"TwitterSearch\",\n  \"state\" : \"RUNNING\",\n  \"message\" : null,\n  \"startTime\" : 1400254712000,\n  \"endTime\" : -1,\n  \"finished\" : false,\n  \"counters\" : { },\n  \"exception\" : null,\n  \"running\" : true\n}"
      },
      "error": null
    }
  ]
}