How to obtain authentication token using urllib2 in python?

Question

I want to obtain authentication token using urllib2 in python. My program is (I changed credentials):

import urllib2
import urllib

USER_NAME = 'me'
USER_PASSWORD = 'mypass'

url = "http://myurl.org/oauth/token"

query_args = { "grant_type":"password",
               "username":USER_NAME,
               "password":USER_PASSWORD,
               "client_secret":'123',
                'client_id':'456'}

encoded_args = urllib.urlencode(query_args)
print urllib2.urlopen(url, data=encoded_args).read()

The result of running is 403 Error: Forbidden. However I can obtain the authentication token using curl in terminal:

curl -X POST "url" -d "credentials"

I used "url" and "credentials" from the python code (to obtain "credentials" string I prinded out encoded_args).

How to get authentication token using urllib2?

use try-except to log the full error response. maybe it's useful... — root
– root, Commented Nov 23, 2013 at 9:26

VooDooNOFX · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-23 09:04:48Z

1

First off, you shouldn't mix urllib and urllib2 in the same application. urllib2 is the successor to urllib, and will do the same things.

The real answer here is to use an OAuth capable library to like python-oauth2 to do the heavy lifting for you. Or better, switch from urllib2 to a slightly higher level package like requests, and use one of their brilliant oauth plugins for a single solution which kicks some ass!

answered Nov 23, 2013 at 9:04

VooDooNOFX

4,7622 gold badges25 silver badges22 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to obtain authentication token using urllib2 in python?

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related