How to connect to SharePoint in Python using username and password instead of Client credentials? What are the steps to get authorization for ******@company.com from SharePoint site?

Question

I would like to know how to access SharePoint and read files by using company's username and password. And how to get authorization for my username from the site? I have fair idea for client ID ([site]/_layouts/15/AppRegNew.aspx.) Is there any process for username and password?

And also I would like to know how to access site from Python using username and password?

Answer 1

Hi @Adithya Ramula

I will recommend you to use Office365-REST-Python-Client, you can get the samples in github. The following code connect sharepoint with user credential.

from office365.sharepoint.client_context import ClientContext
from tests import test_site_url, settings

ctx = ClientContext(test_site_url)
ctx.with_user_credentials(settings.get('user_credentials', 'username'),
                          settings.get('user_credentials', 'password'))

web = ctx.web.get().execute_query()
print(web.url)

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