Azure Websites Kudu REST API - Authentication in Python

Question

I am trying to access the Azure Kudu Web API interface to get historical information about my WebJobs. The URL is https://myfakewebappname.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/HubSpot/history

This works just fine in a browser with a one time (first time you login) user and password authentication.

When I call it with a python script using the requests library, I get a 401 response code and 'WWW-Authenticate': 'Basic realm="site"'. I then send another request:

resp = requests.get('https://myfakewebappname.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/HubSpot/history', auth=('actualuser', 'actualpassword')). I use the user and Password that work using my browser.

I get the same 401 response code again with the same response.headers. What am I doing wrong?

Worked like a charm!! Thank you!!

Robert Luse
– Robert Luse

2021-05-05 16:59:07 +00:00
Commented May 5, 2021 at 16:59 — Robert Luse
– Robert Luse, Commented May 5, 2021 at 16:59

Joy Wang · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-05 06:48:55Z

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The Authentication of the WebJobs Kudu API is via basic auth, to call the API successfully in python, please follow the steps below.

1.Navigate to the Azure portal -> your web app which has the webjob -> click Get publish profile.

2.Open the downloaded file with the format joyweb11.PublishSettings in step 1, note down the userName and userPWD in this file.

3.Then use the code below, replace the value of username and password with the values in step 2, also replace the webapp name in the url with yours, it works fine on my side.

import requests
from base64 import b64encode

username = '$joyweb11'
password = '7pWclexxxxxJlHwoLRwtrneE'
base64AuthInfo = b64encode((username+':'+password).encode('ascii')).decode('ascii')

url = 'https://joyweb11.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/HubSpot/history'
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic ' + base64AuthInfo}

response = requests.get(url=url, headers=headers)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

answered May 5, 2021 at 6:48

Joy Wang

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Robert Luse Over a year ago

Worked like a charm!!

Catalin Over a year ago

Thanks!. I spent about 2 hours trying to authenticate using my Microsoft username and password, and didn't understand why I was keep getting 401 Unauthorized.

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