Getting 401-Unauthorized Error trying to access attachments

Question

This is what I am running:

import requests

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

import json

url = "https://foo.atlassian.net/wiki/api/v2/attachments"

auth = HTTPBasicAuth("foo.bar@foobar.com", "MY_API_TOKEN")

headers = {

"Accept": "application/json",

}

response = requests.request(

"GET",

url,

headers=headers,

auth=auth

)

print(response)

and i get a 401 unauthroized error. I have created the API token and the email I am using is the admin email for my organization.Is there something i'm missing here?

Linda Zhao_c05ab0 · Answer

I am also following the code guide posted on the API reference:
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-attachment/#api-attachments-get

Linda Zhao_c05ab0 · Answer

Thanks for the prompt reponse!

It is my understanding that in python requests

auth = HTTPBasicAuth("foo.bar@foobar.com", "MY_API_TOKEN")

accomplishes the same thing as adding that to the header,

nonetheless i also tried adding

headers = {

"Accept": "application/json",

"Authorization": "Basic ENCODED_STRING",

}

to no avail.

Tansu Akdeniz · Answer

Hi @Linda Zhao

Welcome to the community.

Please take a look at this doc: Basic auth for REST APIs

Provide the encoded string in header.