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Creek Barbara
Creek Barbara

Reputation: 647

Python: Encode Base64 to Basic connect to an API

I'm trying to connect to an API and I've to encode64 the username and password. The 'Authorisation' value should look like this: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ

When I try to connect I get an error: 'Unauthorized: Bad credentials'. The support says that my credentials are ok, but they are slow to respond to solve my issue.

I suspect the encoding part of the code, but I'm not sure. Could you please take a look at my code and tell me what could be wrong with it?

The direct link to the section about authentication in the documentation : http://developer.outbrain.com/home-page/amplify-api/documentation/#/reference/authentications/via-api

m = str(base64.b64encode(b'xxxxx:xxxxxxx'))
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + m + ''
}
r = requests.get('https://api.outbrain.com/amplify/v0.1/login', headers=headers)
print(r.json())

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9045

Answers (2)

Luis Felipe
Luis Felipe

Reputation: 323

Another way to do it:

import base64
    
message = "user:password"
message_bytes = message.encode('ascii')
base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(message_bytes)
base64_message = base64_bytes.decode('ascii')
        
print(base64_message)

Upvotes: 1

cody
cody

Reputation: 11157

You need to use decode to correctly get a string from the byte sequence:

Wrong (note the 'b' prefix and single quotes in the result):

>>> str(base64.b64encode(b'test'))
"b'dGVzdA=='"

Right:

>>> base64.b64encode(b'test').decode('utf-8')
'dGVzdA=='

Additionally, requests can do this for you:

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
r = requests.get('https://api.outbrain.com/amplify/v0.1/login', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass'))

Upvotes: 10

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