Login API inconsistencies

[vdeantoni]

I've been trying to use the Login API with json, but the documentation seems out of date:

https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api

This: To login to Open Library programatically, a POST request must be send to /account/login with username and password must be passed as a JSON dictionary. doesn't seem accurate, based on these comments:

openlibrary/openlibrary/plugins/upstream/account.py

Line 308 in 5f55b17

class account_login_json(delegate.page):

I'm able to login using IA access and secret keys:

curl -i -d '{"access": "XXX", "secret": "XXX"}' -X POST https://openlibrary.org/account/login.json

but not with username/email and password:

curl -i -d '{"username": "XXX", "password": "XXX"}' -X POST https://openlibrary.org/account/login.json

Is this expected? Or am I missing something?

Also, where can I create an infogami account?

Thanks!

[mekarpeles]

I think you should be able to use email and password. The other gotcha is, I believe we use the Archive.org email (not what is in Open Library's database), so if one has updated their email on archive.org, that is the one to provide for the email field. If that is true and makes sense, we may just want to update our API docs for login and mark this issue as resolved.

[mekarpeles]

See also #8210 for useful reference