Authentication API Code Examples - Authenticate

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cURL

curl -X POST  -d '{
  "userName": "REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME",
  "password": "REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD"
  }' https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json'

PHP

<?php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>array(
    "userName": "REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME",
    "password": "REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD"
  ),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => "{\"Content-Type\": \"application/json\"}",
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
?>

C# (UsingRestSharp)

https://restsharp.dev

var client = new RestClient("https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);

request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\"userName\":\"REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME\",\"password\":\"REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD\"}",  ParameterType.RequestBody);

IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Console.WriteLine(response.Content);

Ruby (Using HTTParty)

https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty

require 'httparty'
require 'json'

api_path = 'https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate'

headers = {"Content-Type" => "application/json"}

query = {"userName": "REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME", "password": "REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD"}.to_json

response = HTTParty.post(api_path, headers: headers, body: query)

puts response

NodeJS (Native)

var https = require('follow-redirects').https;
var fs = require('fs');

var options = {
  method: 'POST',
  hostname: 'driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk',
  path: '/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  maxRedirects: 20,
};

var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
  var chunks = [];

  res.on('data', function(chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on('end', function(chunk) {
    var body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });

  res.on('error', function(error) {
    console.error(error);
  });
});

var postData = JSON.stringify({ username: 'REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME', password: 'REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD' });

req.write(postData);

req.end();

NodeJS (Using Axios)

https://github.com/axios/axios

var axios = require('axios');

var data = JSON.stringify({ username: 'REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME', password: 'REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD' });

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url:
    'https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  data: data,
};

axios(config)
  .then(function(response) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
  })
  .catch(function(error) {
    console.log(error);
  });

Python (Using Requests)

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/

import requests

url = "https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate"

payload = "{\"username\": \"REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME\", \"password\": \"REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD\"}"
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data = payload)

print(response.text.encode('utf8'))

Java (Using HTTPClient)

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net.http/java/net/http/HttpClient.html

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create("https://driver-vehicle-licensing.api.gov.uk/thirdparty-access/v1/authenticate"))
                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"username\":\"REPLACE WITH YOUR USERNAME\", \"password\":\"REPLACE WITH YOUR PASSWORD\"}"))
                .build();

        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}