How to login into website using RESTAPI?

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Sorry for asking very basic question. First time I am using REST API. I tried to get answer to this question on google. But I am unable to get any such.

I need to login into a website using password based authentication using REST API and Python. I dont want to use selenium or some other tools for this purpose due to company policy.

Website Name : https://www.test.com
Username : admin
Password : test@123

Any clue/idea on proceding further please?

Can you give us a little more information about the authentication? Do you need to send a simple POST Request to the url with the Username and Password? Is it using HTTP Basic Authentication? — Maurice
– Maurice, Commented Oct 27, 2016 at 7:18
@Maurice I need to use simple password based / HTTP basic authentication. Just I want to login into this website for doing further actions. — rcubefather
– rcubefather, Commented Oct 27, 2016 at 7:22

Hemant Manwani · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-27 06:55:04Z

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Try to use Google chrome REST client extension or postman.

answered Oct 27, 2016 at 6:55

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rcubefather Over a year ago

Thanks for your answer. Will try use the POSTMAN as you said.

Maurice · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-27 07:26:48Z

If you need to issue requests and authenticate yourself using HTTP Basic Authentication, this example from the docs should help:

Use of Basic HTTP Authentication:

import urllib.request

# Create an OpenerDirector with support for Basic HTTP Authentication...
auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password(realm='PDQ Application',
                          uri='https://mahler:8092/site-updates.py',
                          user='klem',
                          passwd='kadidd!ehopper')
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)
# ...and install it globally so it can be used with urlopen.
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.example.com/login.html')

For more complex usage scenarios I suggest using the httplib2. A great introduction to that is here.

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