Title: Authenticating REST API from python
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# Authenticating REST API from python

 *  [johnbilbro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbro/)
 * (@johnbilbro)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authenticating-rest-api-from-python/)
 * What is the best way to authenticate to the REST API from python running on my
   local machine? I don’t want to use basic authentication, so from what I can see
   that leaves me with either OAuth or cookie authentication. I tried using the 
   [python wordpress-api](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wordpress-api) library, with
   the [WP OAuth Server](https://wordpress.org/plugins/oauth2-provider/) on the 
   server side, but I haven’t been able to get it to authenticate. Is this the best
   way to authenticate from a python script, or is there a better way?
 * Thanks
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [johnbilbro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbro/).
      Reason: clarified question

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