cURL: Accessing a Bearer Token Auth Service with bash

curl_accessing_bearer_token.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ----------------
#
# Authorizes an user, retrieves the Bearer token and calls a securized
# API entry.
#
# ----------------

# Auth credentials
API_USER=the_user
API_PASS=the_pass

echo

# Gets the token. This retrieves a JSON like this
#
# { success: { accessToken: "XXXXX" } }
# 
# that is parsed with jq to retrieve the token.
TOKEN=$(curl -k -X POST \
  -d "user=${API_USER}&pass=${API_PASS}" \
  https://whatever.com/auth/login | jq -r ".success.accessToken")

echo

curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
  https://whatever.com/securized --output result.json

echo
echo