Chilkat2-Python

Okta Client Credentials FLow

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The Client Credentials flow is recommended for use in machine-to-machine authentication. Your application will need to securely store its Client ID and Secret and pass those to Okta in exchange for an access token. At a high-level, the flow only has two steps:

• Your application passes its client credentials to your Okta authorization server.
• If the credentials are accurate, Okta responds with an access token.

Note: This example uses "customScope". You'll replace it with whatever scope(s) you've defined for your app. Scopes are defined in your Authorization Server. See Okta Authorization Server / Scopes

Chilkat2-Python

import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

http = chilkat2.Http()

# Implements the following CURL command:

# curl --request POST \
#   --url https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default/v1/token \
#   --header 'accept: application/json' \
#   --user "client_id:client_secret" \
#   --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \
#   --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
#   --data 'grant_type=client_credentials&scope=customScope'

http.Login = "client_id"
http.Password = "client_secret"

req = chilkat2.HttpRequest()
req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.Path = "/oauth2/default/v1/token"
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
req.AddParam("grant_type","client_credentials")
req.AddParam("scope","customScope")

req.AddHeader("accept","application/json")

resp = chilkat2.HttpResponse()
success = http.HttpReq("https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default/v1/token",req,resp)
if (success == False):
    print(http.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

sbResponseBody = chilkat2.StringBuilder()
resp.GetBodySb(sbResponseBody)
jResp = chilkat2.JsonObject()
jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)
jResp.EmitCompact = False

print("Response Body:")
print(jResp.Emit())

respStatusCode = resp.StatusCode
print("Response Status Code = " + str(respStatusCode))
if (respStatusCode >= 400):
    print("Response Header:")
    print(resp.Header)
    print("Failed.")
    sys.exit()

# Sample JSON response:
# (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

# {
#   "access_token": "eyJraWQiO ... B2CnCLj7GRUW3mQ",
#   "token_type": "Bearer",
#   "expires_in": 3600,
#   "scope": "customScope"
# }

# Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
# Use the following online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
# Generate Parsing Code from JSON

access_token = jResp.StringOf("access_token")
token_type = jResp.StringOf("token_type")
expires_in = jResp.IntOf("expires_in")
scope = jResp.StringOf("scope")