JIRA is blocking my user?

[Rea Krakover]

I'm accessing JIRA within python and the Python JIRA library using:

from jira import JIRA

options = {'server': 'https://myserver.atlassian.net'}
jira = JIRA(options=options, basic_auth=('username', 'password'))

and it work's great but after a couple times i'm doing so i'm starting to get an

Err: 401 Unauthorized

and my user password is not valid anymore.

Everytime that it happens I need to change my password to a new one and all of this scenario will occur again.

Is it because I'm using the basic_auth method to login to JIRA?

[Rea Krakover · Accepted solution]

Found a solution.

Based on the fact that basic auth is depreciated (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-basic-auth-and-cookie-based-auth/) 

I've created a token from this link

https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens

and then used my email as username and the token as password

[Deleted user]

Hey @Rea Krakover  
My authentication key was working before and few days back i tried to enter different key and everything got messed up!!
Now even the original one , which was working before is not working.
None of the credentials are working.

Below are the details :
'Authorization': 'Basic key generated',        
'user-agent': 'node.js'

Also i have tried with

'Authorization': 'token generated  token',        
'user-agent': 'node.js'

Still i am resulted with below errors :
some times --> 401 unauthorized
sometimes -->403 forbidden 

Could you please help me to resolve this ?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi! 

May I know can you login using these credential via web browser ?

If it is, hence your user is not blocked.

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

[Rea Krakover]

1. login to web browser version with working credentials

2. running my script with the same credentials couple of times

3. getting the 401 error message

4. trying to log in to web browser version with the same credentials - not working

5.  changing my password

6. go to step 1

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Well, looks like you other scripts is running, hence it is blocking your account.

Could you repeat on another account? Or rename your account?

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

[Rea Krakover]

1. login to web browser version with working credentials

2. running my script with the same credentials couple of times

3. getting the 401 error message

4. trying to log in to web browser version with the same credentials - not working

5.  changing my password

6. go to step 1