Issues while making connection to Shareporint Site

Question

While trying to make connection to SharePoint site using Office365-REST-Python-Client I keep getting Index out of range error. I am not sure of the reason.
My code is as below:

conn = ClientContext(SHAREPOINT_SITE).with_credentials(
UserCredential(
USERNAME,
PASSWORD
)
)

web = conn.web
conn.load(web)
conn.execute_query()
print("Site title: {0}".format(web.properties['Title']))

The error occurs as below:

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IndexError Traceback (most recent call last)
~\AppData\Local\Temp\ipykernel_29876\1444466101.py in <module>
1 web = conn.web
2 conn.load(web)
----> 3 conn.execute_query()
4 print("Site title: {0}".format(web.properties['Title']))

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~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\office365\runtime\auth\providers\saml_token_provider.py in _acquire_service_token_from_adfs(self, adfs_url)
138 headers={'Content-Type': 'application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8'})
139 dom = minidom.parseString(response.content.decode())
--> 140 assertion_node = dom.getElementsByTagNameNS("urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion", 'Assertion')[0].toxml()
141
142 try:

IndexError: list index out of range

Can someone please help on urgent basis

Answer 1

Hi @ASH2212 ,

According to my research, does the SharePoint account you used have MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)? If yes, I recommend that you try to connect to SharePoint site using the following code:

 site_url = 'https://contoso.sharepoint.com/'  
 app_principal = {  
     'client_id': '--client-id-goes-here--',  
     'client_secret': '--client-secret-goes-here--',  
 }  
      
 context_auth = AuthenticationContext(url=site_url)  
 context_auth.acquire_token_for_app(client_id=app_principal['client_id'], client_secret=app_principal['client_secret'])  
      
 ctx = ClientContext(site_url, context_auth)  
 web = ctx.web  
 ctx.load(web)  
 ctx.execute_query()  
 print("Web site title: {0}".format(web.properties['Title']))  

In addition, our forum mainly discuss about SharePoint development using C#, as your issue is about Python, we suggest you can create a new thread on techcommunity for help.

techcommunity :

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-developer/bd-p/SharePointDev

Hope it can help you. Thanks for your understanding.

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