Authentication

In order to work with the PhotoILike API it is necessary to use a session token in the requests. The only request that does not require the session token is the one generated by the token itself.

Request

POST https://api.photoilike.com/v2.0/authenticate

Body of the application

The body of the request contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation

{
    "username": string,
    "password": string
}

Fields

Parameter	Information
username	string Required. PhotoILike User.
password	string Required. PhotoILike Password.

Response to the request

On success, the HTTP status code in the response header is 200 OK and the response body contains the session token.

JSON representation

{"id_token": string}

Fields

Parameter	Information
id_token	string Session token.

Example of a request

cURLPythonJavaPHP

curl --request POST \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"username": "{YOUR_USERNAME}", "password": "{YOUR_PASSWORD}"}' \
https://api.photoilike.com/v2.0/authenticate 

import requests

payload = {
    # Add your photoilike user
    'username': 'YOUR_USERNAME',
    # Add your photoilike password
    'password': 'YOUR_PASSWORD'
}

endpoint = 'https://api.photoilike.com/v2.0/authenticate'

# Make the request
r = requests.post(endpoint, json=payload)

# Response in json format
response = r.json()

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class Authenticate {

    public static void main(String []args) throws Exception {


        JSONObject payload = new JSONObject();
        // add your photoilike user
        payload.put("username", "YOUR_USERNAME");
        // add your photoilike password
        payload.put("password", "YOUR_PASSWORD");

        String endpoint = "https://api.photoilike.com/v2.0/authenticate";

        // build the request
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(endpoint).openConnection();
        connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
        connection.setDoOutput(true);

        OutputStream os = connection.getOutputStream();
        byte[] input = payload.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        os.write(input, 0, input.length);

        // make the request
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
        );
        StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

        for (String responseLine = null; (responseLine = br.readLine()) != null; response.append(responseLine.trim()))
            ;

        // Response in json format
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(response.toString());
    }
}

<?php

  // Add your photoilike user
  // Add your photoilike password
  $payload = json_encode(array(
      'username' => 'YOUR_USERNAME',
      'password' => 'YOUR_PASSWORD'
  ));

  $endpoint = "https://api.photoilike.com/v2.0/authenticate";

  $ch = curl_init($endpoint);
  curl_setopt($ch,  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type:application/json'));
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

  // Make the request
  $result = curl_exec($ch);

  curl_close($ch);

  // Response in json format
  $response = json_decode($result);
 ?>