How do I tell the Jira API that I'm using an API token and not a password?

[Ron Barak]

I try to authenticate to the Jira REST API with a token, but I get an error that

Basic authentication with passwords is deprecated

How do I tell the Jira API that I'm using Basic authentication with a token, not a password?

(venv) $ cat error_demo.py
import base64
import json
import requests

jira_user = 'me@myorg.com'
jira_token = '9rXXXXXXXXXX5B'

cred = "Basic " + base64.b64encode(b"jira_user:jira_token").decode("utf-8")
print("cred =", cred)

headers = {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization" : cred
}

projectKey = "NETOP-1987"

url = "https://myorg.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/search?jql=key=" + projectKey

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)

print("response =", response)
print("response.text =", response.text)

(venv) $ python error_demo.py
cred = Basic amYYYYYYYYYYYYYYW4=
response = <Response [401]>
response.text = Basic authentication with passwords is deprecated. For more information, see: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/deprecation-notice-basic-auth/

[Prince Nyeche]

Why do you use base64 to the credential? You can just use it directly with the HTTPBasicAuth class from the requests.auth module and pass the auth request to the headers instead.

[Ron Barak]

Thanks for the suggestion, Prince Nyeche.
Indeed, with that change, my script returns the expected response:

import base64
import json
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

jira_user = 'me@myorg.com'
jira_token = '9rYYYYYYYYYYYB'

auth = HTTPBasicAuth(jira_user, jira_token)
print("auth =", auth)

headers = {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}

projectKey = "NETOP-1987"

url = "https://myorg.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/search?jql=key=" + projectKey

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, auth=auth)
print(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(".", ": ")))