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dsharma
Adept
2 years ago

How to create API accessible user account with Community

I am new to Khoros platform and want to crawl data from community. For that I did signup process with one lithium community and got my username and password.  I am trying to authenticate myself with...
API
Community API
Rest API
REST API v2 & LiQL
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MartinD's avatar
MartinD
Khoros Alumni (Retired)

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'
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dsharma
Adept
2 years ago

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 ? 

 

  • MartinD's avatar
    MartinD
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)
    2 years ago

    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

    • MartinD's avatar
      MartinD
      Khoros Alumni (Retired)
      2 years ago

      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"