How to access Confluence use atlassian-python-api and a Personal Access Token

[nirabe]

I can use the following for basic auth:

from atlassian import Confluence

confluence = Confluence(url='https://internalconfluenceurl.com', username = 'myusername', password='mypassword')

This also works if I use an API token value instead of password.

How do I alter this to use a Personal Access Token (as created within Confluence) instead? I tried substituting that in for the password, but it gives an error.

Is there a further authentication step that I am missing? I have managed to do something similar in Jira, but the same approach does not work for Confluence. 

[nirabe · Accepted solution]

I found a different approach:

import requests

response = requests.post(base_url, data=page_data_json, headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {pat}',"Accept": "application/json",'Content-Type': 'application/json'})

if response.status_code == 200:
print("Child page created successfully")
else:
print("Failed to create the child page. Status code:", response.status_code)

It is not quite as convenient as using the inbuilt Confluence function, but it seems to work. 

[Sagar]

Hi @nirabe Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Have you check the below document for how to use the PAT in Jira/Confluence instead of basic auth?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/using-personal-access-tokens-1026032365.html

Below is the example of using PAT same way you need to modify to use in Python script

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <yourToken>" https://{baseUrlOfYourInstance}/rest/api/content

[nirabe]

Hi @Sagar and thanks for the prompt reply.

Yes, I had seen the link you shared. I cannot use cURL. There have been some suggestions of using requests instead.

I may go down this route, but it seems much more complicated than the approach for Jira, which is odd.