Authentication

This endpoint provides an authentication token to get access to private resources in Testpress.
HTTP Request
POST  http://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/​
Name
Type
Description
username
string
Username of the user
password
string
Password of the user
cURL
Ruby
Python
C#
PHP
Java
NodeJS 
GO
cURL
To authorize, use this code:
# With shell, you can just pass the user credentials to get the auth token
curl --request POST \
  --url https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/ \
  --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"username": "testpress", "password": "demo"}'
Make sure to replace testpress and demo with your credentials. The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
Ruby
To authorize, use this code:
re 'uri'
require 'net/http'
​
url = URI("https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/")
​
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
​
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request["cache-control"] = 'no-cache'
request.body = "{\n    \"username\": \"testpress\",\n    \"password\": \"demo\"\n}"
​
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
Make sure to replace testpress and demo with your credentials. The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
Python
To authorize, use this code:
import requests
​
url = "https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/"
​
payload = "{\n    \"username\": \"testpress\",\n    \"password\": \"demo\"\n}"
headers = {
    'content-type': "application/json",
    'cache-control': "no-cache",
    }
​
response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)
​
print(response.text)
Make sure to replace testpress and demo with your credentials. The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
C#
To authorize, use this code:
var client = new RestClient("https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("cache-control", "no-cache");
request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n    \"username\": \"admin\",\n    \"password\": \"demo\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Make sure to replace testpress and demo with your credentials. The above command returns JSON structured like this:
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
PHP
To authorize, use this code:
Make sure to replace testpress and demo with your credentials. The above command returns JSON structured like this:
<?php
​
$request = new HttpRequest();
$request->setUrl('http://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_POST);
​
$request->setHeaders(array(
  'postman-token' => '6501b66f-d9ec-4a94-0a94-ef81a66a41f3',
  'cache-control' => 'no-cache',
  'authorization' => 'JWT eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6MTM5NTYsInVzZXJfaWQiOjEzOTU2LCJlbWFpbCI6ImRlcy5wcm8ubWFkaGFuQGhvdG1haWwuY29tIiwiZXhwIjoxNDY0MzQwMzg1fQ.TElNLpQE8KERVe7Q-vjNk9aU-9prOfzBb43srB9WmC0',
  'content-type' => 'multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001'
));
​
$request->setBody('-----011000010111000001101001
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="username"
​
admin
-----011000010111000001101001
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password"
​
demo
-----011000010111000001101001--');
​
try {
  $response = $request->send();
​
  echo $response->getBody();
} catch (HttpException $ex) {
  echo $ex;
}
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
Java
​
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
​
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"username\"\r\n\r\nadmin\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"password\"\r\n\r\ndemo\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("http://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/")
  .post(body)
  .addHeader("content-type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001")
  .addHeader("authorization", "JWT eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6MTM5NTYsInVzZXJfaWQiOjEzOTU2LCJlbWFpbCI6ImRlcy5wcm8ubWFkaGFuQGhvdG1haWwuY29tIiwiZXhwIjoxNDY0MzQwMzg1fQ.TElNLpQE8KERVe7Q-vjNk9aU-9prOfzBb43srB9WmC0")
  .addHeader("cache-control", "no-cache")
  .addHeader("postman-token", "987488b1-1b5f-dd8b-95fc-fea8d276b2ae")
  .build();
​
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
NodeJS 
​
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
GO
​
{"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRlc3RwcmVzcyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjE3LCJlbWFpbCI6InRlc3RwcmVzcy5pbkBnbWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE0NDc4MzMyMjl9.Ik_yi4lHbNbrRGhqmRpsW82Nls_O9lgXakk_syV-vSw"}
Replace demo with your institute subdomain hereafter everywhere.
Response
The response will return an token which should be prefixed with JWT and included in all API requests to the server in a header that looks like the following:
Authorization: JWT auth-token-string
 You must replace auth-token-string with the token you got from the response.
Introduction
Single Sign On (SSO)
Last updated 2 months ago
Name	Type	Description
username	string	Username of the user
password	string	Password of the user
Authentication

HTTP Request

POST http://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/​

To authorize, use this code:

Response

POST http://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.2/auth-token/
