Deepcrawl authencation curl response null?

Question

To authenticate API calls, you must first generate a session to get a token. Then you must send the session token as the value of the X-Auth-Token header to authenticate API calls.

To create a session you first need to manually generate an API Key. This is a key/value pair that can be generated in the API Access page. When you click Generate New API Key, a popup will be displayed with the API Key Value and in the table of Active Keys you can find the API Key ID. This is then sent via Basic Authentication in a POST call to the sessions route.

I followed this Api Documentation of deepcrawl already but what am I doing wrong?

I have X-Auth-Token and API KEY ID where should I put this?

$deephead = "X-Auth-Token: asdjasiojqoieuqiouwqpofoqwojeq"; 

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.deepcrawl.com/sessions");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $deephead);

// Get the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Close cURL connection
curl_close($ch);

// Decode the response (Transform it to an Array)
$result = json_decode($response);

//debug the response
dd($result);

The I can't even get to CURLOPT_GET cause at my post I only get null value. Any idea/thoughts how can I fix this. Thank you in advance.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '18 at 18:33

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DeepCrawl API

It looks like you are trying to generate a token, which it looks like you already have.

To authenticate API calls, you must first generate a session to get a token. Then you must send the session token as the value of the X-Auth-Token header to authenticate API calls.

To create a session you first need to manually generate an API Key. This is a key/value pair that can be generated in the API Access page. When you click Generate New API Key, a popup will be displayed with the API Key Value and in the table of Active Keys you can find the API Key ID. This is then sent via Basic Authentication in a POST call to the sessions route.

curl -X POST -u '123:abcdef' https://api.deepcrawl.com/sessions { "token":"abcdef123", "_user_href":"/users/example-user", ... }

Not the clearest, but it's right there.

$headers = [
    'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'accept: text/html'
];
$username='yourusername';
$password='supersecret';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.deepcrawl.com/sessions");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "root=1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

// Get the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Close cURL connection
curl_close($ch);

// Decode the response (Transform it to an Array)
return json_decode($response);

That will return something like

{
  "token":"abcdef123",
  "_user_href":"/users/example-user",
  ...
}

Since you already have the token, you don't need ot hit session. you can just make your calls.

$headers = [
    'X-AUTH-TOKEN: your-api-key',
    'accept: text/html'
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.deepcrawl.com/system_statuses");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

// Get the response
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Close cURL connection
curl_close($ch);

// Decode the response (Transform it to an Array)
return json_decode($response);

answered Oct 03 '18 at 18:33

whoacowboy

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Did they actually need user and password? – Christian Gallarmin Oct 03 '18 at 18:39
I've tried this command but same thing I only gets null value :/ – Christian Gallarmin Oct 03 '18 at 18:46
Which endpoint are you hitting? If there is no data in you account there is no response. – whoacowboy Oct 03 '18 at 18:47
I have data in my accounts. I also have 2 api key id with generated session tokens. – Christian Gallarmin Oct 03 '18 at 18:49
6/7 are active right now in my account. That's weird – Christian Gallarmin Oct 03 '18 at 18:50
Try the last code block and see if that works. I have no data in my account and all the source above worked for me. – whoacowboy Oct 03 '18 at 18:50
it works on https://api.deepcrawl.com/system_statuses but when i tried my accounts its null. – Christian Gallarmin Oct 03 '18 at 18:57
That's weird. I get a 401 when I do a terminal command with verbose and I copy and paste their provided command. It did work with my credentials and a session token, but not with my api key. I would start a ticket, because it sounds a little buggy to me. – whoacowboy Oct 03 '18 at 19:07
Buddy, I tried to run the first block of your code and when I verified my token is different from my X-Auth-Token is that possible? – Christian Gallarmin Oct 03 '18 at 19:11
can you post your answer here at my bounty as well? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52521892/how-can-i-curl-deepcrawl/52641640#52641640 – Christian Gallarmin Oct 04 '18 at 14:23
Sure thing, it's up – whoacowboy Oct 04 '18 at 17:00

Deepcrawl authencation curl response null?

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