API Authentication failing

[Asiya Yunusa]

Hello, I am trying to authenticate to my accounts API endpoint bit it keeps failing.

IO have used the Basic AUTH (HTTPBasicAuth) and Bearer Token (Header Authentication Method) methods but they both are not working.

Please can I get some input.

Thank you 

[Oliver Siebenmarck _Polymetis Apps_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Asiya Yunusa ,

Welcome to the community!

Without the actual error message you're getting it is a bit hard to pin point the actual problem. However, here are a couple things you might want to check:

• Are you using an API Token you created on you profile?
• Are you using the correct Authentication method for the API you want to use? For example, here's how to authenticate with Jira.

The error message you should be getting will have much more information on what is happening, so if you can share that, we should be able to give you more specific hints.

Best regards,
 Oliver

[Asiya Yunusa]

Thank you!

This is the error from Postman using the Bearer Token: 

{
"error": "Failed to parse Connect Session Auth Token"
}

Yes, I am using the toke generated from my account.

I am trying to authenticate to Confluence cloud

The screenshot is how I am trying to authenticate with BasicAuth 

I can curl from my terminal and it is successful with

curl -v https://mysite.atlassian.net --user me@example.com:my-api-token

[Oliver Siebenmarck _Polymetis Apps_]

Hi @Asiya Yunusa ,

I'm not that big of an expert in Python, but I believe your code does not actually sends your credentials to Confluence. Here's what should work:

EMAIL = "YOU-EMAIL"
TOKEN = "YOUR-TOKEN"

url = "https://YOUR-SITE.atlassian.net/wiki/api/v2/spaces/SPACEID/pages/PAGEID"
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(EMAIL, TOKEN)

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

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

print(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": ")))

Hope that helps,
 Oliver

[Asiya Yunusa]

Thank you! :) It working now

Asiya