I'm using urllib.request in python to try and download some build information from Teamcity. This request used to work without username and password, however a recent security change means I must use a username and password. So I have changed tried each of the two solutions below:
Attempt 1)
url = 'http://<domain>/httpAuth/app/rest/buildTypes/<buildlabel>/builds/running:false?count=1&start=0'
# create a password manager
password_mgr = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
# Add the username and password.
top_level_url = "http://<domain>/httpAuth/app/rest/buildTypes/id:<buildlabel>/builds/running:false?count=1&start=0"
password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password)
handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
# create "opener" (OpenerDirector instance)
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(handler)
# use the opener to fetch a URL
opener.open(url)
Attempt 2
url = 'http://<username>:<password>@<domain>/httpAuth/app/rest/buildTypes/id:buildlabel/builds/running:false?count=1&start=0'
rest_api = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
Both of these return "HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized". However if I was to print 'url' and copy this output into a browser the link works perfectly. But when used through python I get the above error.
I use something very similar in another Perl script and this works perfectly also.
* SOLVED BELOW *
Solved this using.
credentials(url, username, password)
rest_api = urllib2.urlopen(url)
latest_build_info = rest_api.read()
latest_build_info = latest_build_info.decode("UTF-8")
# Then parse this xml for the information I want.
def credentials(self, url, username, password):
p = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
p.add_password(None, url, username, password)
handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(p)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
As a side note, I then want to download a file..
credentials(url, username, password)
urllib2.urlretrieve(url, downloaded_file)
Where Url is:
http://<teamcityServer>/repository/download/<build Label>/<BuildID>:id/Filename.zip