Example for authenticating to Jellyfin API from Python

Jellyfin-api-auth-example.py

import requests

# Define connection details
server_url = 'http://192.168.0.200:8096'
username = 'User'
password = 'Password'

# Build json payload with auth data
auth_data = {
    'username': username,
    'Pw': password
}

headers = {}

# Build required connection headers
authorization = 'MediaBrowser Client="other", Device="my-script", DeviceId="some-unique-id", Version="0.0.0"'

headers['Authorization'] = authorization

# Authenticate to server
r = requests.post(server_url + '/Users/AuthenticateByName', headers=headers, json=auth_data)

# Retrieve auth token and user id from returned data
token = r.json().get('AccessToken')
user_id = r.json().get('User').get('Id')

# Update the headers to include the auth token
headers['Authorization'] = f'{authorization}, Token="{token}"'

# Requests can be made with
#requests.get(f'{server_url}/api/endpoint', headers=headers)

Thanks! I was trying to use the api key but eventually came back to this.