Connect to Okta API's by using Python

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1

Below is the Python script which i am using to connect to okta get users details.

import requests
import json
api_token = ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’

result = requests.get(‘https://{domain}.oktapreview.com/api/v1/users/me’)
headers = {‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’,‘Accept’:‘application/json’,
‘Authorization’:‘SSWS {api_token)’}
print(result)

Issue :response is always 403
Thanks in advance please help me in this.

2

Hi @sriajay

403 errors occur usually when the API token is not correctly sent to the endpoint. F

rom what I can see, the api_token is not correctly added under ‘Authorization’:‘SSWS {api_token)’}, more specifically there is a curly brace and a paranthesis for api_token.

Can you please correct this and try again?

3

Still the response is same 403

result = requests.get(‘https://{domain}.oktapreview.com/api/v1/users/me’)
headers = {‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’,‘Accept’:‘application/json’,
‘Authorization’:‘SSWS {api_token}’}
print(result)

4

Hi @sriajay

If you are adding the api_token directly as a string instead of variable under the Authorization server, does the request return the user’s details successfully?

5

No it is still not returning and value even hard coding the api token value.

result = requests.get(‘https://{domain}.oktapreview.com/api/v1/users’)
headers = {‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’,‘Accept’:‘application/json’,
‘Authorization’: ‘SSWS {REMOVED}’}
print(result)

still the result is same 403

6

Hi @sriajay

I have removed the API token due to possible security issues that might occur, as this is a public forum.

Can you please try to remove the curly brackets { } from the authorization header and try again?

7

Hi @dragos,
Thanks for prompt reply but still no luck.

8

Hi @sriajay

Here is a Python example generated from Postman to retrieve the details about the current user


url = "https://org.okta.com/api/v1/users/me"

payload = ""
headers = {
    'Accept': "application/json",
    'Content-Type': "application/json",
    'Authorization': "SSWS 00b[...]Fi"
    }

response = requests.request("GET", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Can you please test it out, modifying org.okta.com with your current Okta preview org and 00b[...]Fi with your API token?

9

import requests
import json

api_token=‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’
url = “https://dev-338993-admin.oktapreview.com/api/v1/users/”

payload = “”
headers = {
‘Accept’: “application/json”,
‘Content-Type’: “application/json”,
‘Authorization’: “SSWS 00b[api_token}Fi”

‘Authorization’: ‘SSWS {}’.format(‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’)

}

response = requests.request(“GET”, url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

error code:{“errorCode”:“E0000011”,“errorSummary”:“Invalid token provided”,“errorLink”:“E0000011”,“errorId”:“oaea_HXglVbSFKLtbGQVTmffw”,“errorCauses”:[]}

NOTE :The same API token is working in Postman

10

Hi @dragos,
Can you please help me on this.