Unable to fetch Confluence data using atlassian python wrapper

[Rajani Gutta]

Hi Team,

I am using below python code to get some confluence page data , but i am getting 401 CLient error .

Please suggest.

from atlassian import Confluence

confluence = Confluence(
    url='https://myconfluence.domain.com',
    username='companyemailid',
    password='APItokengenerated')

# If you know Space and Title
content1 = confluence.get_page_by_title(space="DOSNI", title="Airflow")

print(content1)



Error

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: for url: https://url/rest/api/content?start=0&limit=1&spaceKey=DOSNI&title=Airflow

[Prince Nyeche · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rajani Gutta 

Welcome to Community! What's your hosted platform? are you using Cloud or Self-hosted. If it's the latter you might want to specify the direct URL where your confluence is installed and stick to username and password. Otherwise if it's Cloud use 

https://myconfluence.atlassian.net/wiki

Then  generate your API token and use with your email Address.

[Rajani Gutta]

Hi @Prince Nyeche ,

Thanks a lot for the quick reply, I dont have atlassian.net in the url , so I think confluence is hosted on prem Dataserver.

I started initially by trying username as password in atlassian module like below .

from atlassian import Confluence

confluence = Confluence(
    url='https://myconfluence.companyname.com',
    username='myid',
    password='password')


But it also threw 401 Error.

Just to add, we have ping federated integrated as two factor authentication .
So after first authentication with username and password, we need to provide ping id also which we received as SMS to login to confluence .

Can you please let me know in such cases , how can i fetch data using REST API , or if there is any other way for fetching data .

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[Prince Nyeche]

That would be a problem then, 2FA will definitely block the authentication from working. Server Products doesn't use an API key which bypasses 2FA features. Alternatively, I believe this framework supports OAuth. Something you could configure on your Server if you possess the access.