How to Authenticate Jira Rest APIs using Client ID and Client Secret

[Phanindra Sagiraju]

Hi, 

I am trying to invoke REST API using Basic Authentication protocol. 

Initially, I used the combination of Email and API Token as suggested by the Cloud REST API documentation. 

url = "https://<jira-host>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/<issue-key>"


r = requests.get(url, auth=('username@useremail', 'api_token'),
                 headers={"Accept": "application/json"})

// Can be also called with HTTPBasicAuth 
(auth = HTTPBasicAuth("username@useremail", "api_token"))

Now I would like to replicate this functionality using a Client ID and Client Secret, that I created using Admin API (Attached Image), using the same HTTP Basic Authentication protocol like above instead of OAuth 3LO but when I am using the same code as above, I am getting a 401 error. 

url = "https://<jira-host>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/<issue-key>"
auth = HTTPBasicAuth("client_id", "client_secret")

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=(",", ": ")))

Please let me know where I am going wrong.

Thanks in advance, 

Phani

[mogavenasan]

Hi Phani,

From the screenshot that you have provided, you have created an admin API key - API keys allow you to manage your organization via the admin APIs.

As for the Basic Auth for Atlassian Cloud platform - we no longer will be able to use this protocol for authentication; Deprecation notice - Basic authentication with passwords and cookie-based authentication. 

I hope that this helps.

Thanks,
Moga