Authentication credentials with Rest API

Question

I am trying to retrive information, that is accessible via Rest API. But I am not sure how to pass authentication credentials.

GET endpoint doesn't have any place to insert username and password.

When I try to get this info through browser it asks for credentials. But how can I call GET request with python and pass credentials that are required to log in into server?

Here is how it looks via browser

@EDIT Ok here is what I found:

It works with powershell:

$root = 'http://<server>:8080/local/people-counter/.api?live-sum.json'
$user = "user"
$pass= "pass"
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $pass -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($user, $secpasswd)

$result = Invoke-RestMethod $root -Credential $credential
$result

This gives me a proper response:

serial    : <string>
name      : <string>
timestamp : 20210422114954
in        : 6
out       : 6

But how do I translate this to python? I already tried:

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
response = requests.get('http://<server>:8080/local/people-counter/.api?live-sum.json', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass'))

print(response)

But response is always:

<Response [401]>

Does this answer your question? [Python, HTTPS GET with basic authentication](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6999565/python-https-get-with-basic-authentication) — mousetail, Apr 07 '21 at 14:30
Most likely it's using HTTPBasic Auth. Depending how you are trying to connect will depend on how you can set the headers — Steve Mapes, Apr 07 '21 at 14:31
Alright, I learnt more about HTTPBasic Auth but it doesn't work in my case. Here is my code: `import requests from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth response = requests.get('http://:8080/local/people-counter/.api?live-sum.json', auth=('user', 'password')) print(response)` But it returns 401, which is wierd because when I use the same credentials via browser it works... — Mateusz Marzec, Apr 22 '21 at 09:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '21 at 10:35

You can use HTTP Client.

Her's more: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/dart-io/HttpClient-class.html

import 'dart:convert';
import 'dart:developer' as developer;
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

main() async {
  var client = http.Client();
  String username = 'example';
  String password = 'example123';
  String basicAuth =
      'Basic ' + base64Encode(utf8.encode('$username:$password'));
  String url =
    'https://example.com/api';

  print(basicAuth);

  var response = await client.get(contacts_url,
      headers: <String, String>{'authorization': basicAuth});
  print(response.statusCode);
  developer.log(response.body);
}

Authentication credentials with Rest API

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