WebEx API Create Team - Access Token Issue

[Netmart]

Hello,

I was running the following WebEx API and ran into an authorization header issue.

I guess it does not like using env variables in authorization header. 

https://developer.webex.com/docs/getting-started#personal-access-tokens

#!/usr/bin/Pyhon3

import json

import requests

URL = "https://webexapis.com/v1/teams"

PAYLOAD = {

"name": "DevNet Associate Certification Team"

}

HEADERS = {

"Authorization": "Bearer $TOKEN",

"Content-Type": "application/json"

}

RESPONSE = requests.request("POST", URL, data=json.dumps(PAYLOAD), headers=HEADERS)

print(RESPONSE.text)

Note:

Personal ACCESS TOKEN has been copied from Developer WebEx page and saved as env:

$ export TOKEN="ZDMxNzZlNGEtMjE2Zi00NDFhLThiNWQtZmY5ZTUzZmQ4Y2Q3NThhZjRhN2ItZDll_P0A1_3e53fd2c-fe2b-4014-8e2d-c5af7b0ff23d“

$ printenv TOKEN

ZDMxNzZlNGEtMjE2Zi00NDFhLThiNWQtZmY5ZTUzZmQ4Y2Q3NThhZjRhN2ItZDll_P0A1_3e53fd2c-fe2b-4014-8e2d-c5af7b0ff23d

https://developer.webex.com/docs/getting-started#personal-access-tokens

Console Output:

{"message":"The request requires a valid access token set in the Authorization request header.","errors":[{"description":"The request requires a valid access token set in the Authorization request header."}],"trackingId":"ROUTERGW_f7df2b11-994e-46ea-adba-6d33b0418ce3"}

Please advise.

Thanks.

[Marcel Zehnder · Accepted solution]

To access your environment variable use os.getenv():

#!/usr/bin/Pyhon3
import json
import requests
import os

URL = "https://webexapis.com/v1/teams"
PAYLOAD = {
"name": "DevNet Associate Certification Team"
}

HEADERS = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.getenv('TOKEN')}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

RESPONSE = requests.request("POST", URL, data=json.dumps(PAYLOAD), headers=HEADERS)
print(RESPONSE.text)

[Netmart]

Thank you Marcel, this worked.

When using cURL the format for environmental token seems to be $<TOKEN>

Example:

curl -L -i -X GET "https://webexapis.com/v1/organizations" \

>  -H "Authorization:Bearer $TOKEN" \

>  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

> -d{"roomid":"d6qce5aLZkt6VLRD"."text":"Welcome to Webex!"}

[Marcel Zehnder · Accepted solution]

Glad it worked, please dont' foreget to mark the answer as accecpted solution

CURL is running in a Linux Shell/Bash where you access environment variables with $<ENVNAME>, however in Python you need to use a module (like the os module in the example above) in order to access env vars.

[dtibbe]

Please be also aware the the dev token is valid for 12 hours only. After that, you have to grab a new one from the page.

Better would be to create a real integration (or bot or service app) and to renew the token periodically.

If you have Webex API related questions, the developer community forum is also a good place to post. The support team is watching that forum as well: https://community.cisco.com/t5/webex-for-developers/bd-p/disc-webex-developers