Get a security token to access ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS services

get_portal_security_token.py

import urllib
import urllib2 
import json 

def get_portal_security_token(portal_url, portal_admin_user, portal_admin_password, expiration=60):
    '''
    Returns a security token for AGOL or an ArcGIS portal.
    Expiration period is specified in minutes and defaults to an hour.
    The portal URL needs to be something like this:
        https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/generateToken
        https://my.portal.com/portal/sharing/generateToken
    '''
    def get_my_ip():
        ''''
        https://api.ipify.org?format=json' returns {"ip":"12.34.5.678"}
        '''
        return json.loads(urllib2.urlopen('https://api.ipify.org?format=json').read())['ip']
    #the get_my_ip may not be necessary as a blank referer means "IP Address of this request's origin", but I wanted to include the ipify call because it's a cool service.
    payload  = {'username' : portal_admin_user, 'password' : portal_admin_password, 'referer' : get_my_ip(), 'f' : 'json', 'expiration' : expiration }
    request = urllib2.Request(portal_url, urllib.urlencode(payload)) #post request
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    return json.loads(response.read())['token']