Connecting to Panopto API using User-Based Server Application credentials

Gopi Manimaran

Out of all the roles listed for client/secret combination on Panopto only 1. User-Based server application (password grant) or 2. Server application (client credentials grant) suits my need as I will not have
user in the middle. I created "user-based server application" API credentials on Panopto. Then tried passing Deere user id and user password however I kept getting [{"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"Invalid username or password"}].

Am I missing anything here?

Adis Hrnjica

Hi Gopi,

Is this custom code or you are using some of Panopto Github samples. What are you using for scope?

Does the call work if you use Postman?

Can you look into sample here:
Panopto OAuth2

Let me know if that doesn't work and we can take a look further into your code sample.

Thanks,

Adis

Gopi Manimaran

Hi Adis,

Thanks for checking out, the example you provided is for Auth code and I am trying password grant. Scope that I am using is 'api' and here is the sample code from Panopto that I am trying to use -
panopto-api-python-examples/common/panopto_oauth2.py at master · Panopto/panopto-api-python-examples

Adis Hrnjica

Hi Gopi,

Can you use DEFAULT_SCOPE = ('openid', 'api') for scope?

Thanks,

Adis

Gopi Manimaran

Hi Adis,

I tried and still same error Arguments: (400, '{"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"Invalid username or password"}').

Adis Hrnjica

Hi Gopi,

Does this work in Postman?

Thanks,

Adis

Gopi Manimaran

Hi Adis, I tried and getting same error. Please find the screenshot.

Aishwarya Harpale

Hello Gopi,

In Postman, instead of sending the parameters in the Body, we send it in the Auth/Authorization tab. Select the Auth type as "Oauth2.0" and in the Configure New Token section enter the following details:
The Access token URL should be https://<your-domain>/Panopto/oauth2/connect/token

You will be granted a new token when you click Get New Access Token. In your python code, as the error mentions, your Grant type is invalid. In Postman, we use the Password Credentials Grant Type for a User based server application and we get the token. If the request works in postman, we can figure out if the bug is in your python code or something else entirely.