Using Python request post method but getting 401 response code

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I am using Python request module post method to process json data, like so.

r = requests.post(url,data=json.dumps(payload),headers=headers)

However I am getting response[401]. Does it mean I need to first authorize it by adding login first?

401 means you need to authorize ... what part dont you understan ... what api are you consuming ... — Joran Beasley
– Joran Beasley, Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 18:32
sorry!, I first did response = requests.get('bla.bla.bla.bla, — Peter Chao
– Peter Chao, Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 18:37
well there you go ... bla.blah.blah Im sure is not the correct address... also you typically need to open the authorization url in a web browser that redirects the autorization token back to a specified url — Joran Beasley
– Joran Beasley, Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 18:40

Dan · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-04 03:53:11Z

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A 401 response, as you noticed, means that you need to authenticate in order to make the request. How you do this depends on the auth system in place, but your comment "I use HTTPBasicAuth(user, password) that give me response code of 200" suggests that it's just Basic Auth - which is easy to deal with in requests.

Anywhere you do a requests call, add the kwarg auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD) - so for your example above, you'd do r = requests.post(url,data=json.dumps(payload),headers=headers, auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD)) (replacing USERNAME and PASSWORD with the right values, as shown here.

answered Feb 4, 2015 at 3:53

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I can access the url using my explorer, but I dont know what my authentication is. How can I use "requests" to get url content by leveraging the explorer in my computer.

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