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Renewing your API Token automatically
Your API token will expire every 6 months as a security precaution. You can always get a new token from the EnteroBase webpage. Some users may wish to have a more automated method.
To refresh your token automatically, you just need to query the login endpoint with your username and password. I strongly recommend that send all API requests through HTTPS, especially this one.
#!html https://enterobase.warwick.ac.uk/api/v2.0/login?username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD
In Python this could be a simple script built into a larger program:
#!python from urllib2 import HTTPError import urllib2 import base64 import json ENTEROBASE_USERNAME = 'YOUR_USERNAME' ENTEROBASE_PASSWORD = 'YOUR_PASSWORD' ENTEROBASE_SERVER = 'https://enterobase.warwick.ac.uk' address = '%s/api/v2.0/login?username=%s&password=%s' %(ENTEROBASE_SERVER, ENTEROBASE_USERNAME, ENTEROBASE_PASSWORD) try: response = urllib2.urlopen(address) data = json.load(response) print json.dumps(data, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': ')) except HTTPError as Response_error: print '%d %s. <%s>\n Reason: %s' %(Response_error.code, Response_error.msg, Response_error.geturl(), Response_error.read())
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