CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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ashim
ashim

Reputation: 25560

How to obtain authentication token using urllib2 in python?

I want to obtain authentication token using urllib2 in python. My program is (I changed credentials):

import urllib2
import urllib

USER_NAME = 'me'
USER_PASSWORD = 'mypass'

url = "http://myurl.org/oauth/token"

query_args = { "grant_type":"password",
               "username":USER_NAME,
               "password":USER_PASSWORD,
               "client_secret":'123',
                'client_id':'456'}

encoded_args = urllib.urlencode(query_args)
print urllib2.urlopen(url, data=encoded_args).read()

The result of running is 403 Error: Forbidden. However I can obtain the authentication token using curl in terminal:

curl -X POST "url" -d "credentials"

I used "url" and "credentials" from the python code (to obtain "credentials" string I prinded out encoded_args).

How to get authentication token using urllib2?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1142

Answers (1)

VooDooNOFX
VooDooNOFX

Reputation: 4762

First off, you shouldn't mix urllib and urllib2 in the same application. urllib2 is the successor to urllib, and will do the same things.

The real answer here is to use an OAuth capable library to like python-oauth2 to do the heavy lifting for you. Or better, switch from urllib2 to a slightly higher level package like requests, and use one of their brilliant oauth plugins for a single solution which kicks some ass!

Upvotes: 1

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