sipgate.io python Personal Access Token example

To demonstrate how to authenticate against the sipgate REST API using HTTP Basic Auth, we query the /account endpoint which provides basic account information.

For further information regarding the sipgate REST API please visit https://api.sipgate.com/v2/doc.

For more information on how to create a token, visit https://www.sipgate.io/rest-api/authentication#personalAccessToken.

Prerequisites

• python3
• pip3

How To Use

Navigate to the project's root directory.

Install dependencies:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the .env file by copying the .env.example. Set the values according to the comment above each variable.

The token should have the account:read scope. For more information about personal access tokens visit https://www.sipgate.io/rest-api/authentication#personalAccessToken.

Run the application:

$ python3 personal_access_token.py

How It Works

Request parameters like url and headers are defined as follows:

base_url = 'https://api.sipgate.com/v2'
token_id = 'YOUR_SIPGATE_TOKEN_ID'
token = 'YOUR_SIPGATE_TOKEN'

credentials = (token_id + ':' + token).encode('utf-8')
base64_encoded_credentials = base64.b64encode(credentials).decode('utf-8')

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + base64_encoded_credentials
}

Note: Basic Auth requires the credentials to be Base64-encoded.
Note: The base64 encoder requires byte-like-objects. We use .encode('utf-8') and .decode('utf-8') to convert strings to byte-like-objects and vice versa.

If OAuth should be used for Authorization instead of Basic Auth we do not suply the auth object in the request options. Instead we set the authorization header to Bearer followed by a space and the access token: Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,. For an example application interacting with the sipgate API using OAuth see our sipgate.io python OAuth example.

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We use the python package 'requests' for request generation and execution. The requested URL consists of the base url defined above and the endpoint /account. This example prints the status code and response body to the console.

response = requests.get(base_url + '/account', headers=headers)

print('Status:', response.status_code)
print('Body:', response.content.decode("utf-8"))

Common Issues

HTTP Errors

reason	errorcode
token_id and/or token are wrong	401
credentials not Base64-encoded	401
wrong REST API endpoint	404
wrong request method	405

Related

• requests documentation
• base64 documentation

Contact Us

Please let us know how we can improve this example. If you have a specific feature request or found a bug, please use Issues or fork this repository and send a pull request with your improvements.

License

This project is licensed under The Unlicense (see LICENSE file).

External Libraries

This code uses the following external libraries

• requests:
  Licensed under the Apache License 2.0
  Website: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/

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