• Web Development

    Obtain a bearer token using curl

    In the following, we set a variable called BearerToken using a simple curl to the contents of a bearer token. We do so by running a curl with data in the header for “userid” although sometimes we see this as just “user” or “username” and then a password. This hits an endpoint called authenticationendpoint although sometimes we see that called “auth” or “authenticate” – in this specific case we’re pulling the bearer token out of “id” and it’s nested in there with a name of “token”: BearerToken=$(curl -s -X POST -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"userid”:”{userid}”,”password":"{password}"}' https://krypted.com//api/authenticationendpoint | sed -E 's/\},\s*\{/\},\n\{/g' File | grep  ‘”id” : “token”’) Once…