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Authentication

Authenticate to gain access to functionalities within the SDK.

In a configuration file

  1. Create a credentials.json file.
  2. Copy and paste the following code into the created file:

    JSON 

        {
  "username": "<your-email-address>",
  "password": "<your-password>"
}

  3. Retrieve the email address and password used for logging into the console. Use them as values in the following arguments:

    • Set the value of the username argument to your email address.
    • Set the value of the password argument to your password.
  4. Authenticate from the created credentials.json file:

    Python 

        import up42
up42.authenticate(cfg_file="credentials.json")

Directly in the code

  1. Copy and paste the following code:

    Python 

        import up42
up42.authenticate(
   username="<your-email-address>",
   password="<your-password>",
)

  2. Retrieve the email address and password used for logging into the console. Use them as values in the following arguments:

    • Set the value of the username argument to your email address.
    • Set the value of the password argument to your password.