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I’m working on an macOS client app and was curious what was needed to authorize/login a user to get a token for the auth header?

The lemmy documentation for login doesn’t seem to work (sends 400 response back) and it also doesn’t seem to work with oauth?

I got oauth working for mastodon but those same endpoint calls don’t seem to work for lemmy.

  • nmtake@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    It seems OAuth2 hasn’t implemented yet. At this time, to get auth value, username and password are required:

    # Python
url = 'https://<instance_name>/user/login'
data = {'username_or_email': username_or_email,
        'password': password}
response = requests.post(url, json=data)
json = response.json()
auth = json['jwt']

    Since the endpoint recieves JSON then returns JSON, you may need to send following HTTP headers explicitly:

    Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
    • evilviper@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Looking at the lemmy documentation I assumed they wanted form data and sent that along with application/x-www-form-urlencoded for the Content-Type.

      As you mention what they actually want is JSON and application/json Content-Type.

      Thanks for the info!