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Rafa
Rafa

Reputation: 3349

Python requests parameters not going through

I'm trying to make a post request to Quizlet following their OAuth flow from these instructions https://quizlet.com/api/2.0/docs/authorization-code-flow. I'm running into a problem where on Step 2, I have to make a post request with a token I generated from their server, but I'm not having success passing in the token to the url. I know it was generated correctly, but I'm having trouble passing it in and not getting a 400 response.

More directly, my question is, is there another way of including the grant_type and code parameters that I'm trying to pass in through the url in the post request such as passing them in through the header of the post request? I've looked at the documentation for requests but I've had no luck.

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/index')
def index():
    code = request.args.get('code')
    state = request.args.get('state')
    print("code is " + code)
    r = requests.post("https://api.quizlet.com/oauth/token?grant_type=authorization_code&code=" + code)

    return render_template('index.html')

Upvotes: 1

Views: 299

Answers (1)

fips
fips

Reputation: 4379

You must specify the required headers Authorization, Content-Type.

import requests
from requests.auth import _basic_auth_str

client_id = 'YOUR CLIENT ID'
secret = 'YOUR CLIENT SECRET'
code = 'CODE FROM STEP 1'

headers = {
    'Authorization': _basic_auth_str(client_id, secret),
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
}
r = requests.post('https://api.quizlet.com/oauth/token?grant_type=authorization_code&code={0}'.format(
    code), headers=headers)

print r.status_code
print r.content

Upvotes: 1

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