how to login jira cloud with(python) rest api without importing jira module ?

[mahesh kumar]

what type of authentication(format) are to be used to login jira cloud 

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to update this thread as some things have changed.  While you can still use Basic Auth for Jira Cloud REST API, the use of passwords and cookie based auth no longer works. More details in Deprecation notice - Basic authentication with passwords and cookie-based authentication.

Please check out our guide in Basic auth for REST APIs.  It explains in detail that after you have created your Cloud API token, that you then need to build a string in the format of user@example.com:API_TOKEN and then base64 encode that string.  You can then pass that encoded string as part of an authorization header for your REST API requests.

Once you have that setup, I'd recommend checking out the Jira Cloud REST API Reference for the endpoint you want to call.  The Cloud version of this document has examples in various language syntax such as python, Java, PHP, Node.js, and cURL.

# This code sample uses the 'requests' library: 
# http://docs.python-requests.org 

import requests 
from requests.auth 
import json 

url = "/rest/api/3/myself" 

headers = { 
"Authorization": "Basic [encodedstring]", 
"Accept": "application/json" 
} 

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

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

This should work to make basic auth requests in Jira Cloud from Python.

I hope this helps.

Andy

[Gilson Carciofi Junior]

Thanks @Andy Heinzer for the update. 

[Gilson Carciofi Junior]

just a question, do we need to use "GET" or "POST" ?

[Gilson Carciofi Junior]

Hey @Andy Heinzer , even i have used that code, I got basic authentication error.

[Wesam Kiwan]

Hi @Andy Heinzer 
can you explain how to use python to authenticate jira hosted on salesforce cloud? 

[Shobit Puri]

requests is not defined. How to solve this?

[Ben Kelley]

In this article I go over generating a Jira Python client from the Open API spec. The code it generates includes the correct requirements.txt to pull in the required libraries.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Generating-a-Python-REST-Client-for-Jira-Cloud/ba-p/1747050

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

It is basic authentication, but instead of the password you pass API token:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/api-tokens-938839638.html

[mahesh kumar]

hi alexey,

i have already tried this code with token  but getting status 200 and html format code is appearing..

import requests
url="https://xxxxxxx.atlassian.net"
body={
"username":"xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.com",
"password":"token"
}
headers = {"content_type":"application/json"}
r=requests.post(url,data=body,headers=headers)
print(r.text)

[Mark de Bont _MI-Partners_]

this worked for me : https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-use-API-token-for-REST-calls-in-Python/qaq-p/760940