How to use basic authentication to create OAuth Token while working with GitHub APIs

Question

I'm working on a django project and I'm trying to implement Github login using username and password.

Here's the content of my views.py file:

@login_required
def github_access_via_username(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = GitHubUserPassAuthForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            username = form.cleaned_data.get('username')
            password = form.cleaned_data.get('password')

            payload = {
                "scopes" : [
                    "repo", "admin:org", "admin:public_key", "admin:repo_hook", "admin:org_hook",
                    "gist", "notifications", "user", "delete_repo", "write:discussion", "admin:gpg_key",
                ],
                "note" : "Permissions",
            }
            response = requests.post('https://api.github.com/authorizations', params=payload, auth=(username, password))
            #json_response = response.json()
            #access_token = json_response['token']
            #user = Github(access_token)
            return HttpResponse(response.status_code)
    else:
        form = GitHubUserPassAuthForm()
    return render(request, 'core/github_login.html', {'form':form})

Here's the output of print(reponse)

{'message': 'Problems parsing JSON', 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth_authorizations/#create-a-new-authorization'}
[23/Sep/2018 19:55:42] "POST /core/github_access_via_username/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5020

I wasn't getting anything so I decided to return the status_code, and it returned a 400. I'm stuck. Any eye opener please?

Message from github says:problems parsing json. Maybe try ˋjson.dumps(payload)ˋ to encode the dict to json explicitly. — klaas
– klaas, Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 20:28
Possible duplicate of Using python requests module to create an authenticated session in Github — stovfl
– stovfl, Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 20:35
@klaas I tried that already (after I posted the question), but response['message'] said Validation Falied — Caspian
– Caspian, Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 22:48

Caspian · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-24 00:35:40Z

2

I figured it out! According to the documentation at GitHub, you need your client id and client secret keys to get or create new authorizations. So I modified the payload dict and response variable as follows:

...
payload = {
    ...            
    "client_secret" : settings.GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET,
}
response = requests.put('https://api.github.com/authorizations/clients/{}'.format(settings.GITHUB_CLIENT_ID), auth=(username, password), data=json.dumps(payload))
...

...and that worked!

answered Sep 24, 2018 at 0:35

Caspian

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