How to authenticate with REST API

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Superset version

0.17.1

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Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else, but is there any documentation on how to authenticate through the REST API?

Specifically, I’d like to be able to return JSON from the /superset/explore_json/ endpoint (copied from the UI slice view) using cURL (or something similar) but I get the following response when I do:

{
  "message": "Access is Denied", 
  "severity": "danger"
}

Thanks

[andrewsali]

For those still looking for some kind of solution - the following example seems to work:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# set up session for auth
s = requests.Session()
login_form = s.post("http://my_server/login")

# get Cross-Site Request Forgery protection token
soup = BeautifulSoup(login_form.text, 'html.parser')
csrf_token = soup.find('input',{'id':'csrf_token'})['value']

# login the given session
s.post('http://my_server/login/',data=dict(username='admin', password='my_passwd',csrf_token=csrf_token))

# run API call
print(s.get('http://my_server/users/api').text)

[mistercrunch]

This is how we do it in the unit tests: https://github.com/airbnb/superset/blob/master/tests/base_tests.py#L127

But that may vary depending on the type of authentication you use.