topic Re: Support of 2 Step Authentication in Download Tool in Dev Space

Support of 2 Step Authentication in Download Tool

TerryM — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:19:00 GMT

Does Download tool support 2 step authentication?

Step 1: Log into a website using credentials to get session ID

Step 2: Extract data with session ID

Is it possible to do this in Alteryx? If download tool doesn't work, what is the best approach?

Thanks.

Terry

Re: Support of 2 Step Authentication in Download Tool

patrick_mcauliffe — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 10:29:44 GMT

The process is outlined here:

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/APIs-in-Alteryx-cURL-and-Download-Tool/ta-p/31522

Re: Support of 2 Step Authentication in Download Tool

TashaA — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:45:48 GMT

Hey Terry!

Depending on the authentication protocol being used by the service you are working with, you could do something like this:

Text Input (w/credentials)

Download Tool - call an endpoint that allows you to get an auth token

Download Tool (again) - use the token that was returned by the 1st Download Tool to make an API call

I have done this plenty of times in big macros or workflows, I usually have one download tool calling an authentication service and then feed that token to 1 or many other download tools in the same workflow!

-Tasha

You might also find this article helpful : https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/Guide-to-Creating-Your-Own-Connector-Authentication/ta-p/23582

Re: Support of 2 Step Authentication in Download Tool

i606557 — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 03:42:34 GMT

Hi. Would you please share an example workflow.