Curl -u equivalent in HTTP request

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I've been trying to plug into the Toggl API for a project, and their examples are all using CURL. I'm trying to use the C# wrapper which causes a bad request when trying to create a report, so I thought I'd use Postman to try a simple HTTP request.

I can't seem to get the HTTP request to accept my API Token though. Here's the example that they give (CURL):

curl -u my-secret-toggl-api-token:api_token -X GET "https://www.toggl.com/reports/api/v2/project/?page=1&[email protected]&workspace_id=1&project_id=2"

I've tried the following HTTP request with Postman with a header called api_token with my token as the value:

https://www.toggl.com/reports/api/v2/project/[email protected]&project_id=9001&workspace_id=9001

(changed ids and email of course).

Any help on how to use the CURL -u in HTTP would be appreciated, thanks.

Well, in Postman, select Basic Auth, fill Username with my-secret-toggl-api-token, and Password with api_token. Refresh headers and there you go — hlscalon
– hlscalon, Commented Jan 6, 2016 at 16:19
I did this and I believe it's worked! I now get a different error but I think that's down to my permissions in our Toggl Team, thanks. — Matt Brewerton
– Matt Brewerton, Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 9:37

Sabuj Hassan · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-07 07:45:34Z

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The easy way is adding credential into url as user:pass@ format.

https://my-secret-toggl-api-token:[email protected]/reports/api/v2/project/?page=...
        <---------------------------------->

Alternately you can use credential with your http header like below:

Authorization: Basic XXXXXX

Here XXXXXX is base64(my-secret-toggl-api-token:api_token)

answered Jan 7, 2016 at 7:45

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Matt Brewerton Over a year ago

I used the Basic Authorization in Postman and it returns a different error for me, which I now believe is related to my access within Toggl. Thank you for the answer, it helped a lot!

LomaxOnTheRun Over a year ago

Probably worth noting here that the :api_token part of this is the exact string required, e.g. https://aaa111...bbb222:[email protected]/...

Joshua Vandenbor · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-15 14:11:26Z

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As explained to me in another post, you can pass the api token to the user property if you are using HttpWebRequest:

request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes($"my-secret-toggl-api-token:api_token")));

answered Aug 15, 2019 at 14:11

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Lior Elrom · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-07 14:15:58Z

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Using fetch

In node environment, your request might look something like so:

const url = 'https://www.toggl.com/reports/api/v2/project/page=1&[email protected]&workspace_id=1&project_id=2';
const token = 'my-secret-toggl-api-token:api_token';

fetch(url, {
  method: 'GET', // not required
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Basic ${Buffer.from(String(token)).toString('base64')}`,
  },
})

edited Aug 7, 2020 at 14:15

answered Jul 23, 2020 at 22:05

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