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This quick how-to was written with python 2.7.11 and requests 2.8.1

Step-by-step guide

The following steps demonstrate how gethow get_token.py workspy works:

1. Import requests, sys, getpass and requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth to handle endpoint authentication.

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   import getpass import sys import requests from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

2. Get user from input and password via getpass.getpass() so it's not prompted.

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   # input argument usr = sys.argv[1] # Prompt the user for a password without echoing. pwd = getpass.getpass()

3. Set the authentication endpoint

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   token_endpoint = 'https://vss-wsapi.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/auth/request-token'

4. Make a POST request to token_request and create a new HTTPBasicAuth object initializing it with usr and pwd

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   r = requests.post(url=token_endpoint, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(usr, pwd))

5. Get JSON response body

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   data = r.json()

6. Print Error if any or the token if succeeded:

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   if r.ok: print 'TOKEN={}'.format(data['token']) else: print 'ERROR: {} {}: {}'.format(r.status_code, data['error'], data['message'])

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# importing modules
import getpass
import sys
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

# input argument
usr = sys.argv[1]

# Prompt the user for a password without echoing.
pwd = getpass.getpass()

# authentication endpoint
token_endpoint = 'https://vss-wsapi.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/auth/request-token'

# making post request
r = requests.post(url=token_endpoint, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(usr, pwd))
data = r.json()

# getting token or printing error
if r.ok:
    print 'TOKEN={}'.format(data['token'])
else:
    print 'ERROR: {} {}: {}'.format(r.status_code, data['error'], data['message'])

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