Download our e-book of Introduction To Python
Related Blog
Matplotlib - Subplot2grid() FunctionDiscuss Microsoft Cognitive ToolkitMatplotlib - Working with ImagesMatplotlib - PyLab moduleMatplotlib - Working With TextMatplotlib - Setting Ticks and Tick LabelsCNTK - Creating First Neural NetworkMatplotlib - MultiplotsMatplotlib - Quiver PlotPython - Chunks and Chinks View More
Top Discussion
How can I write Python code to change a date string from "mm/dd/yy hh: mm" format to "YYYY-MM-DD HH: mm" format? Which sorting technique is used by sort() and sorted() functions of python? How to use Enum in python? Can you please help me with this error? I was just selecting some random columns from the diabetes dataset of sklearn. Decision tree is a classification algo...How can it be applied to load diabetes dataset which has DV continuous Objects in Python are mutable or immutable? How can unclassified data in a dataset be effectively managed when utilizing a decision tree-based classification model in Python? How to leave/exit/deactivate a Python virtualenvironment Join Discussion
Top Courses
Webinars
Http Authentication In Python
Shashank Shanu
3 years ago
Table of Contents
- What is Authentication?
- How to install Requests package?
- How to Authenticate GitHub?
- How to Authenticate Twitter?
What is Authentication?
The
process of determining if the request has come from a valid user who has the
required permission to the system is known as Authentication.
It’s
a very important requirement as in the world of computer networking many
systems keep interacting with each other and the proper mechanism needs to ensure
that only valid interactions happen between these programs.
Python
has a module name requests which comes with a built-in feature to call different
APIs provided by the serving web apps along with user credentials. These
credentials have to be embedded in the calling program. So, if the APIs verify
it successfully then it gets a valid login.
How to install Requests package?
To install python-requests
module for Authentication run the below-mentioned command.
pip install requests
How to Authenticate GitHub?
We
can authenticate to GitHub very simply using the username and the password. If
authentication is successful, we will receive a valid login response.
Run
the below command to authenticate-
import requests
req = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
print(req)
How to Authenticate Twitter?
Python
provides us a way where we can run a program in it to use twitter’s API and
successfully log in to a twitter account.
Here
we use the OAuth1 method available in the requests module to the parameters
required by the Twitter API. Python request module is capable of handling more
complex authentication mechanism involving keys and tokens rather than just the
username and password mechanism.
import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1
url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json'
auth = OAuth1('YOUR_APP_KEY', 'YOUR_APP_SECRET',
'USER_OAUTH_TOKEN', 'USER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET')
requests.get(url, auth=auth)
The output of the above program-
{
"errors": [
{
"code": 215,
"message": "Bad Authentication data."
}
]
}
As
we see we received an error message. But using the proper values for OAuth1
parameters we will get a successful response.
I hope you enjoyed reading this article and finally, you came
to know about Http Authentication In Python.
For more such blogs/courses on data science, machine
learning, artificial intelligence and emerging new technologies do visit us at InsideAIML.
Thanks for reading…
Happy Learning…