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access ADFS/OIDC protected webapi with curl or python

I would like to access a webapi by a script(bash or python), which is protected by mod_openidc/apache2 and an self-hosted ADFS.
For the authentication, a certificate from a smartcard or locally stored certificate is required.
I already tried several approaches with python or curl, but got no nearly working script.
approach at python:
from oauthlib.oauth2 import BackendApplicationClient
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
client_id="abcdef-abcd-abcd-abcd-abcdefghijk"
client = BackendApplicationClient(client_id=client_id)
#client = BackendApplicationClient()
oauth = OAuth2Session(client=client)
protected_url="https://protectedurl/page/"
oauth.fetch_token(token_url='https://sts.myserver.net/adfs/oauth2/token/', include_client_id=True, cert=('/home/user/cert.pem', '/home/user/server.key'))
which lead to: "oauthlib.oauth2.rfc6749.errors.InvalidClientError: (invalid_client) MSIS9627: Received invalid OAuth client credentials request. Client credentials are missing or found empty"
curl:
curl --cert /home/user/cert.pem --key /home/user/server.key
https://sts.example.net/adfs/oauth2/authorize/?response_type=code&scope=openid%20email%20profile%20allatclaims&client_id=XXX&state=XXXredirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.net%2Fpage%2Fredirect_uri&nonceXXX
Which gives the sts page in html
So I think I dont have some small bug, but a wrong approach
Since it works in a browser, I dont suggest a issue on server side
Any approaches and examples are warmly welcome

Accesing ASANA data using python requests

First of all, I'm not a Python guru as you can probably tell... So here we go.
I'm trying to use Asana's API to pull data with Python requests (Projects, tasks, etc) and doing the authentication using Oauth 2.0... I've been trying to find a simple python script to have something to begin with but I haven't had any luck and I can't find a decent and simple example!
I already created the app and got my client_secret and client_secret. But I don't really know where or how to start... Could anybody help me please?
import sys, os, requests
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
import asana
import json
from six import print_
import requests_oauthlib
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
client_id=os.environ['ASANA_CLIENT_ID'],
client_secret=os.environ['ASANA_CLIENT_SECRET'],
# this special redirect URI will prompt the user to copy/paste the code.
# useful for command line scripts and other non-web apps
redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob'
if 'ASANA_CLIENT_ID' in os.environ:
#Creates a client with previously obtained Oauth credentials#
client = asana.Client.oauth(
#Asana Client ID and Secret, set as a Windows environments to avoid hardcoding variables into the script#
client_id=os.environ['ASANA_CLIENT_ID'],
client_secret=os.environ['ASANA_CLIENT_SECRET'],
# this special redirect URI will prompt the user to copy/paste the code.
# useful for command line scripts and other non-web apps
redirect_uri='urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob'
)
print ("authorized=", client.session.authorized)
# get an authorization URL:
(url, state) = client.session.authorization_url()
try:
# in a web app you'd redirect the user to this URL when they take action to
# login with Asana or connect their account to Asana
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open(url)
except Exception as e:
print_("Open the following URL in a browser to authorize:")
print_(url)
print_("Copy and paste the returned code from the browser and press enter:")
code = sys.stdin.readline().strip()
# exchange the code for a bearer token
token = client.session.fetch_token(code=code)
#print_("token=", json.dumps(token))
print_("authorized=", client.session.authorized)
me = client.users.me()
print "Hello " + me['name'] + "\n"
params = {'client_id' : client_id, 'redirect_uri' : redirect_uri, 'response_type' : token,}
print_("*************** Request begings *******************"+"\n")
print_("r = requests.get('https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/users/me)" + "\n")
r = requests.get('https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/users/me', params)
print_(r)
print_(r.json)
print_(r.encoding)
workspace_id = me['workspaces'][0]['id']
print_("My workspace ID is" + "\n")
print_(workspace_id)
print_(client.options)
I'm not sure how to use the requests lib with Asana. Their python doc did not help me. I'm trying to pull the available projects and their code colours so I can later plot them into a web browser (For a high-level view of the different projects and their respective colours - Green, yellow or red)
When I introduce the url (https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/users/me) into a browser, it gives me back a json response with the data, but when I try to do the same with the script, it gives me back a 401 (not authorized) response.
Does anybody know what I'm missing / doing wrong?
Thank you!!!

I believe the issue is that the Requests library is a lower level library. You would need to pass all of the parameters to your requests.
Is there a reason you are not exclusively using the Asana Python client library to make requests? All of the data you are looking to fetch from Asana (projects, tasks, etc.) are accessible using the Asana Python library. You will want to look in the library to find the methods you need. For example, the methods for the tasks resource can be found here. I think this approach will be easier (and less error-prone) than switching between the Asana lib and the Requests lib. The Asana lib is actually built on top of Requests (as seen here).

Authenticating connection in PySolr

This is the first time I am using Python and Solr. I have my Solr instance set up within tomcat on GCE. I am trying to connect to it from my Python code using PySolr. However, I am not sure how to send authentication parameters via PySolr.
This is the exception I get:
solr = pysolr.Solr('http://MY INSTANCE IP/solr/News', timeout=10)
Apache Tomcat/7.0.28 - Error report HTTP Status 401 - type Status reportmessage description This request requires HTTP authentication ().Apache Tomcat/7.0.28
Please advise.

solr = pysolr.Solr('http://user:pass#IP:8983/solr/')
That's all you need ...

You can pass Solr authentication as part of the Solr connection parameter.
You don't have proper documentation in pySolr on how to carry out authentication. Since pySolr internally uses requests for authentication you can follow authentication in requests.
Here is a small example on custom authentication as well.
In the case of Basic Authentication, you can use it as
solr = pysolr.Solr('http://IP:8983/solr/collection',auth=('username','password'))
or
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
solr = pysolr.Solr('http://IP:8983/solr/collection',auth=HTTPBasicAuth('username','password'))
This is the proper way of authentication. Passing username and password as a part of URL is not recommended as it might create issues if # or ' are used in any of those may create issues in the authentication.Refer this GitHub issue

Basic authentication with jira-python

I'm new to Python, new to the jira-python library, and new to network programming, though I do have quite a bit of experience with application and integration programming and database queries (though it's been a while).
Using Python 2.7 and requests 1.0.3
I'm trying to use this library - http://jira-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ to query Jira 5.1 using Python. I successfully connected using an unauthenticated query, though I had to make a change to a line in client.py, changing
I changed
self._session = requests.session(verify=verify, hooks={'args': self._add_content_type})
to
self._session = requests.session()
I didn't know what I was doing exactly but before the change I got an error and after the change I got a successful list of project names returned.
Then I tried basic authentication so I can take advantage of my Jira permissions and do reporting. That failed initially too. And I made the same change to
def _create_http_basic_session
in client.py , but now I just get another error. So problem not solved. Now I get a different error:
HTTP Status 415 - Unsupported Media Type
type Status report
message Unsupported Media Type
description The server refused this request because the request entity is in
a format not` `supported by the requested resource for the requested method
(Unsupported Media Type).
So then I decided to do a super simple test just using the requests module, which I believe is being used by the jira-python module and this code seemed to log me in. I got a good response:
import requests
r = requests.get(the_url, auth=(my username , password))
print r.text
Any suggestions?

Here's how I use the jira module with authentication in a Python script:
from jira.client import JIRA
import logging
# Defines a function for connecting to Jira
def connect_jira(log, jira_server, jira_user, jira_password):
'''
Connect to JIRA. Return None on error
'''
try:
log.info("Connecting to JIRA: %s" % jira_server)
jira_options = {'server': jira_server}
jira = JIRA(options=jira_options, basic_auth=(jira_user, jira_password))
# ^--- Note the tuple
return jira
except Exception,e:
log.error("Failed to connect to JIRA: %s" % e)
return None
# create logger
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# NOTE: You put your login details in the function call connect_jira(..) below!
# create a connection object, jc
jc = connect_jira(log, "https://myjira.mydom.com", "myusername", "mypassword")
# print names of all projects
projects = jc.projects()
for v in projects:
print v

Below Python script connects to Jira and does basic authentication and lists all projects.
from jira.client import JIRA
options = {'server': 'Jira-URL'}
jira = JIRA(options, basic_auth=('username', 'password'))
projects = jira.projects()
for v in projects:
print v
It prints a list of all the project's available within your instance of Jira.

Problem:
As of June 2019, Atlassian Cloud users who are using a REST endpoint in Jira or Confluence Cloud with basic or cookie-based authentication will need to update their app or integration processes to use an API token, OAuth, or Atlassian Connect.
After June 5th, 2019 attempts to authenticate via basic auth with an Atlassian account password will return an invalid credentials error.
Reference: Deprecation of basic authentication with passwords for Jira and Confluence APIs
Solution to the Above-mentioned Problem:
You can use an API token to authenticate a script or other process with an Atlassian cloud product. You generate the token from your Atlassian account, then copy and paste it to the script.
If you use two-step verification to authenticate, your script will need to use a REST API token to authenticate.
Steps to Create an API Token from your Atlassian Account:
Log in to https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens
Click Create API token.
From the dialog that appears, enter a memorable and concise Label for your token and click Create.
Click Copy to clipboard, then paste the token to your script.
Reference: API tokens
Python 3.8 Code Reference
from jira.client import JIRA
jira_client = JIRA(options={'server': JIRA_URL}, basic_auth=(JIRA_USERNAME, JIRA_TOKEN))
issue = jira_client.issue('PLAT-8742')
print(issue.fields.summary)

Don't change the library, instead put your credentials inside the ~/.netrc file.
If you put them there you will also be able to test your calls using curl or wget.
I am not sure anymore about compatibility with Jira 5.x, only 7.x and 6.4 are currently tested. If you setup an instance for testing I could modify the integration tests to run against it, too.
My lucky guess is that you broke it with that change.

As of 2019 Atlassian has deprecated authorizing with passwords.
You can easily replace the password with an API Token created here.
Here's a minimalistic example:
pip install jira
from jira import JIRA
jira = JIRA("YOUR-JIRA-URL", basic_auth=("YOUR-EMAIL", "YOUR-API-TOKEN"))
issue = jira.issue("YOUR-ISSUE-KEY (e.g. ABC-13)")
print(issue.fields.summary)
I recommend storing your API Token as an environment variable and accessing it with os.environ[key].

Programmatically getting an access token for using the Facebook Graph API

I am trying to put together a bash or python script to play with the facebook graph API. Using the API looks simple, but I'm having trouble setting up curl in my bash script to call authorize and access_token. Does anyone have a working example?

Update 2018-08-23
Since this still gets some views and upvotes I just want to mention that by now there seems to exist a maintained 3rd party SDK: https://github.com/mobolic/facebook-sdk
Better late than never, maybe others searching for that will find it. I got it working with Python 2.6 on a MacBook.
This requires you to have
the Python facebook module installed: https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk,
an actual Facebook app set up
and the profile you want to post to must have granted proper permissions to allow all the different stuff like reading and writing.
You can read about the authentication stuff in the Facebook developer documentation. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/ for details.
This blog post might also help with this: http://blog.theunical.com/facebook-integration/5-steps-to-publish-on-a-facebook-wall-using-php/
Here goes:
#!/usr/bin/python
# coding: utf-8
import facebook
import urllib
import urlparse
import subprocess
import warnings
# Hide deprecation warnings. The facebook module isn't that up-to-date (facebook.GraphAPIError).
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning)
# Parameters of your app and the id of the profile you want to mess with.
FACEBOOK_APP_ID = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
FACEBOOK_PROFILE_ID = 'XXXXXX'
# Trying to get an access token. Very awkward.
oauth_args = dict(client_id = FACEBOOK_APP_ID,
client_secret = FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET,
grant_type = 'client_credentials')
oauth_curl_cmd = ['curl',
'https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?' + urllib.urlencode(oauth_args)]
oauth_response = subprocess.Popen(oauth_curl_cmd,
stdout = subprocess.PIPE,
stderr = subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
try:
oauth_access_token = urlparse.parse_qs(str(oauth_response))['access_token'][0]
except KeyError:
print('Unable to grab an access token!')
exit()
facebook_graph = facebook.GraphAPI(oauth_access_token)
# Try to post something on the wall.
try:
fb_response = facebook_graph.put_wall_post('Hello from Python', \
profile_id = FACEBOOK_PROFILE_ID)
print fb_response
except facebook.GraphAPIError as e:
print 'Something went wrong:', e.type, e.message
Error checking on getting the token might be better but you get the idea of what to do.

Here you go, as simple as it can get. Doesn’t require any 3rd-party SDK etc.
Make sure Python 'requests' module is installed
import requests
def get_fb_token(app_id, app_secret):
url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token'
payload = {
'grant_type': 'client_credentials',
'client_id': app_id,
'client_secret': app_secret
}
response = requests.post(url, params=payload)
return response.json()['access_token']

Easy! Just use facebook-sdk.
import facebook
app_id = 'YOUR_APP_ID'
app_secret = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET'
graph = facebook.GraphAPI()
# exactly what you're after ;-)
access_token = graph.get_app_access_token(app_id, app_secret)

You first need to set up an application. The following will then spit out an access token given your application ID and secret:
> curl -F type=client_cred -F client_id=[...] -F client_secret=[...] https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token

Since a web browser needs to be involved for the actual authorization, there is no such thing as a "standalone script" that does it all. If you're just playing with the API, or are writing a script to automate something yourself, and want a access_token for yourself that does not expire, you can grab one here: http://fbrell.com/auth/offline-access-token

There IS a way to do it, I've found it, but it's a lot of work and will require you to spoof a browser 100% (and you'll likely be breaking their terms of service)
Sorry I can't provide all the details, but the gist of it:
assuming you have a username/password for a facebook account, go curl for the oauth/authenticate... page. Extract any cookies returned in the "Set-Cookie" header and then follow any "Location" headers (compiling cookies along the way).
scrape the login form, preserving all fields, and submit it (setting the referer and content-type headers, and inserting your email/pass) same cookie collection from (1) required
same as (2) but now you're going to need to POST the approval form acquired after (2) was submitted, set the Referer header with thr URL where the form was acquired.
follow the redirects until it sends you back to your site, and get the "code" parameter out of that URL
Exchange the code for an access_token at the oauth endpoint
The main gotchas are cookie management and redirects. Basically, you MUST mimic a browser 100%. I think it's hackery but there is a way, it's just really hard!

s29 has the correct answer but leaves some steps to solve. The following script demonstrates a working script for acquiring an access token using the Facebook SDK:
__requires__ = ['facebook-sdk']
import os
import facebook
def get_app_access_token():
client = facebook.GraphAPI()
return client.get_app_access_token(
os.environ['FACEBOOK_APP_ID'],
os.environ['FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET'],
)
__name__ == '__main__' and print(get_app_access_token())
This script expects the FACEBOOK_APP_ID and FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET environment variables are set to the values for your app. Feel free to adapt that technique to load those values from a different source.
You must first install the Facebook SDK (pip install facebook-sdk; python get-token.py) or use another tool like rwt to invoke the script (rwt -- get-token.py).

Here is the Python Code. Try running some of these examples on command line, they work fine for me. See also — http://www.pythonforfacebook.com/