I am unable to authenticate JIRA using API Key(Basic Authentication)

[Yogi Kilambi]

I am unable to authenticate JIRA using API Key(Basic Authentication)

[Kalyan Sattaluri]

@Yogi Kilambi 

You cant directly use the API token.

You need to base64 encode your email:API token first

See here --> LINK

Then you take that encoded string and use it to authenticate in the format Basic<space>encodedstring

[Kalyan Sattaluri]

From above link, If you are on windows, replace bolded parts with your details, open power shell, copy paste / hit enter, you get the encoded string. then you pass Basic<space>encodedstring during auth

$Text = ‘user@example.com:api_token_string’

$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Text)

$EncodedText = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)

$EncodedText

[Dexter de Vera]

Hi @Yogi Kilambi ,

Welcome to Atlassian Community,

Try to create API token for authentication.

https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/manage-api-tokens-for-your-atlassian-account/ 

[Yogi Kilambi]

I did create API Key but unable to authenticate it... with username, API Key and URI... though every input is correct.