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Get Request to Azure DevOps with Personal Access Token (PAT) using Python

I’m trying to make a get request to Azure DevOps.

I have the URL and the Personal_Access_Token. The URL was created following these intructions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/git/items/get?view=azure-devops-rest-6.1&tabs=HTTP#definitions , and it is working fine in the browser. It is possible to see the information of the file that I’m targeting.

However, when I execute the request in python:

import requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer myPAT',
}

response = requests.get('exampleurl.com/content', headers=headers)

I’m getting the 203 response…

I have also try other options following this link Python requests library how to pass Authorization header with single token without success. Including these headers:

personal_access_token_encoded = base64.b64encode(personal_access_token.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')    
headers={'Authorization': 'Basic '+personal_access_token_encoded}

headers={'Authorization': 'Basic '+personal_access_token}

But in both cases still having the same response.

For sure I’m not considering something. What could be missing?

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Answers


  1. 0

    Hi error feedback 203 is about your invalid token.

    So what is the authorization type of your request call?

    For pat headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic pat'}
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    For bearer token headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer MYREALLYLONGTOKENIGOT'}
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    You could put your rest api in postman and click the code button at the right-side bar to overview the rest api into different script.
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  2. 0

    For Azure DevOps API, you need to use Basic Auth instead of Baerear, providing only the PAT token encoded in base64.

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  3. 0

    My "gotcha", when experiencing this issue, was that I wasn’t encoding a ":" concatenated to the beginning of the PAT string. Here is how I encoded the PAT token:

    encoded_pat = base64.b64encode((":" + pat).encode()).decode()

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