Why am I getting 401 – Unauthorized response while calling bamboo REST API with valid credentials?

Question

I need to setup some environment variables and queue the last successful version for deployment using a python script.

I'm doing something like this to get the last deployed versionId:

url = f"{base_url}/rest/api/latest/deploy/environment/{environment_id}/results"

headers = {"Accept": "application/json"}

response = requests.request("GET", url, auth=(username, password), headers=headers)

response = json.loads(response.text)

return response["results"][0]["deploymentVersion"]["id"]

This was working fine until 2 days ago. Suddenly from yesterday, I'm getting a 401 Unauthorized error.I'm getting this page when I try the same via Insomnia

The interesting thing is, I'm able to do all the actions from the UI and using curl with the same credentials. Any idea what I'm missing?

Madhankumar M_72nrvv · Answer

Hey, I think I got what the issue is.

Sometimes when I login, bamboo asks for a captcha verification. Whenever that happens, I'm getting the 401 error while using the REST API. Once I login to the UI after completing the captcha verification, the API requests are going through.

Is there a way to bypass captcha while accessing the REST API?

Shashank Kumar · Answer

Hello Madhu,

What errors do you see in <bamboo-home>logs>atlassian-bamboo.log file when you use the REST API from postman, does it print anything different from 401 error?

Regards,

Shashank Kumar

Madhankumar M_72nrvv · Answer

Hi @Shashank Kumar,

Thanks for the reply. I tried using postman too. Same response.