How to create API accessible user account with Community

Disclaimer: I am not an engineer

Are you using restadmin instead of rest?  This seems to always trick up engineers on their first attempt using Khoros.  (You want to use restadmin!)

edit: Our engineer says I am probably wrong, so, you should probably ignore my advice 🤣

No, I am not using restadmin. I just followed the mentioned steps in the Question.

Hello dsharma 

I see you are an SSO user. Hence, it would be best if you used sso.authentication_token parameter

Here are the documentation and screenshot for reference "Session Key authentication"

Or alternatively you can create a non SSO account in the USERS tab in admin just for API use. Then you should be able to get a session key for that account.

Make sure to make the account an Admin account if you want to use it to retrieve any private information or if you are using FreeMarker you can use restadmin like StanGromer suggested.

Also, if you are only after publicly visible information, LiQl does not require any authentication.

You don't need authentication to run that liql query, you can just try this call and will work

curl --location --request GET 'https://community.alteryx.com/api/2.0/search?q=select%20*%20from%20users%20limit%201'

Thanks MartinD , It worked. 

Actually for the first attempt, I signup with community cisco and tried to get result as 

curl --location --request GET 'https://community.cisco.com/api/2.0/search?q=select%20*%20from%20users%20limit%201'

 and it returned 200 response but empty users data.  From documentation, I interpreted as that user data might not be available to anonymous users and hence i signup with them. 

But then i was not able to authenticate myself as described in question. 

Could you help me with the reason or any findings that why i am not getting users details from cisco community ? 

Hi MohammedSh , thanks for taking time. 

I tried with sso as well, still not able to authenticate

 curl --location --request \                                                                                             
    POST 'https://community.alteryx.com/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login' \
    --form 'user.login=dshrm' \
    --form 'user.password=*****' \
    --form 'sso.authentication_token=66231595-191e-4353-9e9e-e5906dbf7f0e'

I tried with removing password field , removing user.login but nothing worked. 
Here sso token used in the valid generated UUID. 
Is token something different to be used here or can be used anything to uniquely identifies?

dsharma, thank you for trying with SSO. As per your above comment, it seems like MartinD solution worked. However, if you still face any issues, I suggest you raise a support ticket to investigate internally and help you. 

dsharma there are some communitites with this setting set on false

restapi.v2.enable_anon_user_collection_access = false

If this setting is false then an anonymous user can not get the user data if he is not logged in

dsharma for the authentication could you try this curl but update the token to the correct one

curl -F"sso.authentication_token=66231595-191e-4353-9e9e-e5906dbf7f0e" "https://community.alteryx.com/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login"