Python requests to Confluence Cloud Rest API: suddenly error 401 after years

Christoph_ilio8z

Hello,

For years, I’ve been accessing the Confluence Cloud using the Python module requests to automatically read pages. Authentication has always worked as follows:

import requests

session = requests.Session()

session.trust_env = False
 


headers: dict = {

    "Authorization": "Basic Usermail:PasswordAsBase64String"

}

URL = "https://MYCOMPANY.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/masterdetail/1.0/detailssummary/lines?cql=label=produkt_spezifikation&spaceKey=TPOM&pageSize=1000&headings=Multilanguage-Bezeichner"

GETResponse = session.get(URL, headers=headers)

JSONResponse = json.loads(GETResponse.text)

Since I didn’t know what the issue was, I switched to token-based authentication. The call now looks like this, but it results in the same error:

import requests

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

 

URL = "https://MYCOMPANY.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/masterdetail/1.0/detailssummary/lines?cql=label=produkt_spezifikation&spaceKey=TPOM&pageSize=1000&headings=Multilanguage-Bezeichner"

GETResponse = session.get(URL, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(confluenceMail, confluenceToken))

JSONResponse = json.loads(GETResponse.text)

Something changed between October 16th at 4:00 PM and October 17th at 1:30 AM, and since then I haven’t been able to access the data.

When I open the URLs in a browser, the data is displayed correctly. However, Python fails to access the specific URLs. I can still access the homepage of our team space, which is:

<a href="https://MYCOMPANY.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TPOM/overview/rest/api/content/" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://MYCOMPANY.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TPOM/overview/rest/api/content/</a>

But as soon as I try to access the masterdetail pages, I get a 401 error.

What can I do?

Sebastian Krzewiński

Hi @Christoph 

 

Please check if api token is valid and not expired.

 

Regards,

Seba