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Authentication from cli tools can be a bit of a bear, and I have to look it up every time. This is my reference guide for future me to remember how to easily do it.
I set up a fastapi server running on port 8000, it uses a basic auth with
waylonwalker as the username and asdf as the password. The server follows
along with what comes out of the docs. I have it setup to take basic auth,
form username and password, or a bearer token for authentication.
curl #
The og of command line url tools.
# basic auth curl -u 'waylonwalker:asdf' -X POST localhost:8000/token # basic auth with password prompt curl -u 'waylonwalker' -X POST localhost:8000/token # token curl -H 'Authorization: bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ3YXlsb253YWxrZXIiLCJleHAiOjE3MDI5NTI2MDJ9.GeYNt7DNal6LTiPoavJnqypaMt4vYeriXdq5lqu1ILg' -X POST localhost:8000/token
wget #
My go to if I want the result to go into a file.
# basic auth wget -q -O - --auth-no-challenge --http-user=waylonwalker --http-password=asdf --post-data '' localhost:8000/token # token wget -q -O - --header="Authorization: bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ3YXlsb253YWxrZXIiLCJleHAiOjE3MDI5NTI2MDJ9.GeYNt7DNal6LTiPoavJnqypaMt4vYeriXdq5lqu1ILg" -O - --post-data '' localhost:8000/token
httpx #
An http client written in python, primarilty used with the python api, but has a nice cli.
# install python3 -m pip install httpx # basic auth httpx -m POST --auth waylonwalker asdf http://localhost:8000/token # basic auth with password prompt httpx -m POST --auth waylonwalker - http://localhost:8000/token # token httpx -m POST --headers="Authorization" "bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ3YXlsb253YWxrZXIiLCJleHAiOjE3MDI5NTI2MDJ9.GeYNt7DNal6LTiPoavJnqypaMt4vYeriXdq5lqu1ILg" http://localhost:8000/token
httpie #
A modern http client written in python.
# install python3 -m pip install httpie # basic auth http POST localhost:8000/token -a waylonwalker:asdf # basic auth with password prompt http POST localhost:8000/token -a waylonwalker # token http POST localhost:8000/token -A bearer -a eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ3YXlsb253YWxrZXIiLCJleHAiOjE3MDI5NTI2MDJ9.GeYNt7DNal6LTiPoavJnqypaMt4vYeriXdq5lqu1ILg
httpie with plugin #
# install python3 -m pip install httpie-credential-store # usage http POST localhost:8000/token -A creds
httpie prompt #
http-prompt comes from the httpie org, and has an interactive cli interface
into apis. You can even specify a spec file to autocomplete on api methods.
http-prompt localhost:8000 --auth waylonwalker:asdf --spec openapi.json