geonetwork-api-authentication
GeoNetwork API authentication script in python
GeoNetwork API authentication
GeoNetwork is a metadata catalog webapplication. The application can also be accessed with an API. The API uses a security filter to prevent CSRF attacks. Authentication of API requests works with a token that is stored in a cookie. The GeoNetwork manual describes the authentication procedure here using curl. However, the manual does not give an example of an authentication method using python.
Authentication with python
This python script can be used for the authentication of the GeoNetwork API. The script takes the XSRF-token and the session-ID from the cookie and adds it to the headers. The script contains the index reset API-function as an example of an API request. The script has been developed using GeoNetwork version 3.10.6 and is based on the standard authentication method in GeoNetwork (user/password stored in database).