# API-Test-Call with python

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**Created:** [August 5, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/api-test-call-with-python/33193 "2024-08-05T10:13:29Z")\
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## Hello Guys, at the moment i try to implement a small test-api-call with python (see below). With curl i get a valide response as json-object. With python i get a response, that my authorization ist not valid (401-Response.) See code below. Can somebody help me or give me some hints, thank you!:

import requests

api\_url=[https://172.168.98.208:9000/api/system?pretty=true](https://172.168.98.208:9000/api/system?pretty=true)’

bearer\_token=‘11111111111111111111’ #dummy-token

headers = {“Authorization:” “{bearer\_token}”}

response = requests.get(api\_url, headers=headers, verify=False)

## print(response.status\_code)

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The api url isn’t formatted as a string properly.

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**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/api-test-call-with-python/33193/3 "2024-08-05T20:49:25Z")

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The Graylog token is used with HTTP Basic authentication.

Here is an example:

```py
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
url = "http://hostname.domain.tld/api/"
d_headers = {"Accept":"application/json", "X-Requested-By":"python"}
username = 'apitoken'
password = 'token'
r = requests.post(url, headers=d_headers, verify=False, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, password))

```

Note that when using a token, the username is the contents of the graylog token, and password is `token`.

See also [Graylog REST API](https://go2docs.graylog.org/current/setting_up_graylog/rest_api.html) .

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**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/api-test-call-with-python/33193/4 "2024-08-19T20:49:28Z")

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