Authentication

You need to authentication token to access the private resources and to generate access token for playback via Testpress API

Generate authentication token

Make Post request to the below link with the credentials to generate an authentication token.

POST http://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.5/auth-token/

Name	Type	Description
username	string	Username of the user
password	string	Password of the user

Sample code

Python

import requests

url = "https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.5/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)

Ruby

re 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.5/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

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();

php

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://demo.testpress.in/api/v2.3/auth-token/',
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "username": "<type_your_username_here>",
    "password": "<type_your_password_here>"
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

caution

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