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API authentication with python request

I am testing some APIs whose only documentation is the response to the requests for the respective APIs. Basically when I execute I get for all the requests: {"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."} except for the login request which is successful, this is because I obviously pass the parameters to it as required I guess.
Below is my code for the requests:
import requests
credential = {'identity' : 'xxxxxxx', 'password': 'xxxxxx'}
#use the 'auth' parameter to send requests with HTTP Basic Auth: auth = ('xxxxxx', 'xxxxxxx')
#url list
api_login = 'https://xxxxxxxx/api/login'
api_channel = 'https://xxxxxxxx/api/channel'
#requests
r_login = requests.post(url=api_login, data = credential)
print(r_login.status_code)
r_channels = requests.get(url=api_channel)
print(r_channels.text)
If it can help, following the info for the API that fail the authentication:
Curl
curl -X 'GET' \
'https://xxxxxxx/api/channels' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'X-CSRFToken: xxxxxxxxx'
Request URL
https://xxxxxxx/api/channels
At the moment I've tried using basic authentication in the GET request and passing the headers in the documentation curl but as I'm not a bit practical I might have got it wrong.

Flask not receiving arguments from curl post

Trying to implement a flask API with the following code:
import tweepy,flask,os,flask_api,re,json,logging
app = flask.Flask(__name__,template_folder='')
#app.route('/',methods=['POST'])
def answer():
app.logger.info('server responding')
for key,value in flask.request.args.items():
app.logger.info(key+':'+value)
return 'Server on line'
#app.route('/',methods=['GET'])
def home():
return flask.render_template('index.html')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)#use_reloader=False
logging.basicConfig(filename='error.log',level=logging.DEBUG)
app.logger.info('Successfull info message')
app.logger.error('Successfull error message')
When I try to curl it wit windows,
curl -X POST -d query=cheese http://127.0.0.1:5000/
(long form)
curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST --data '{"query":"cheese"}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/
I get
INFO in logtest: server responding
But not a single key/value pair is returned

flask.request.args are URL query parameters.
curl --data is body.
You're sending a request body but expecting them to show up in the URL params. Which will obviously not work.
You need to access request.data instead. There is a convenience method get_json() that you can use to have Flask parse the body into a dictionary for you.

Django Can't load Json in POST request body if more than 1 parameter is passed in URL

I have a views.py with an endpoint like this:
def endpoint(request):
if request.method == "POST":
body = request.body.decode('utf-8')
body = json.loads(body)
param1 = request.GET.get('param1','default1')
param2 = request.GET.get('param2','default2')
My urls.py have this urlpattern:
url(r'^endpoint$', views.endpoint, name="endpoint")
The problem I have is that if I send requests in one of the following ways it works fine:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/endpoint -d #data.json
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/endpoint?param1=val1 -d #data.json
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/endpoint?param2=val2 -d #data.json
But if I send a request with both parameters:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/endpoint?param1=val1&param2=val2 -d #data.json
I get the exception:
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char
0)
Why I get JSONDecodeError when having multiple parameters? Is it because it's a POST request?
EDIT: I have to use a file data.json because de body of the request is quite big.
I also tried with a smaller json
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/endpoint?param1=val1&param2=val2 -d "{"a": "b"}"
To debug I inserted this on the beginning of the code:
print("request body:")
print(request.body)
I get this in the terminal:
request body:
b''
It seems Django don't even receive the request body

in the command line the & means run command in background, try to put url in the double quotes: "http://localhost:8000/endpoint?param1=val1&param2=val2"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/endpoint?param1=val1&param2=val2" -d #data.json

Flask API failing to decode JSON data. Error: "message": "Failed to decode JSON object: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)"

I'm setting up a simple rest api using flask and flask-restful. Right now all I'm trying to do is create a post request with some Json data, and then return it just to see if it works. I always get the same error "message": "Failed to decode JSON object: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)"
Below is my code
from flask import Flask, jsonify, request
from flask_restful import Resource, Api
app = Flask(__name__)
api = Api(app)
class Tester(Resource):
def get(self):
return {'about': 'Hello World'}
def post(self):
data_json = request.get_json(force=True)
return {'you sent': data_json}
api.add_resource(Tester, '/')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True)
The curl request I am making to test this is below, I've also tried making request using postman
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{'username':"abc",'password':"abc"}' http://localhost:5000

You need to select raw -> JSON (application/json) in Postman like this:
When it comes to your cURL request, answer explains that windows's command line lacks support of strings with single quotes, so use:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "{\"username\":\"abc\", \"password\":\"abc\"}" 127.0.0.1:5000
instead:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{'username':"abc",'password':"abc"}' http://localhost:5000
\ escapes " character.

You also need to have the Content-Length header enabled.

Some additional information in case you are using python script to test your flask api like me - you have to dumps before adding the dictionary to the data field.
import requests
import json
response = requests.post(
'http://localhost:5000',
data = json.dumps({'username':"abc",'password':"abc"}),
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
)

The curl request (payload) is incorrect. Use double quotes in the payload.
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"username":"abc","password":"abc"}' http://localhost:5000

How to send data on a curl redirect?

I have an API which is currently on HTTP, I moved the API using SSLify library in python flask.
Now when I send data using curl request
curl -v -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
--data '{"title":"foobar","body": "This body"}' \
-L http://X.Y.Z.W.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/test
It returns an empty string to me by using request.data
If I make the request to begin with https it returns correct value. If there is a redirect how can I send data ?

SSLify issues a 301 or 302 redirect status code depending on your configuration. So you need to pass --post301 or --post302 to curl.
The reason for this can be found in the curl man page:
When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for
example POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET
if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was
any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request using
the same unmodified method.
You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET
after a 30x response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and -post303.