Botpress: How to authenticate to API in production?

[mhjb]

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Botpress version: 10.48.2

Channels: Messenger, Slack, web

When running locally, I can GET to for instance http://localhost:3000/api/botpress-broadcast/broadcasts 1 to see the list of broadcasts. On the production server (Heroku) though, I get the response 401 Unauthorized. I’ve attempted Basic Auth with the admin username & password, but no luck.

Can you help?
Thanks
Matthew

[epaminond]

@mhjb , you should use Authorization: Bearer ${token} header to authenticate your request.
Usually it gets saved into bp/token key of localStorage once authorized. Hope this helps.

[mhjb]

Thank you!

[mhjb]

@epaminond can you tell me how I can get it the token programmatically?

Use case: I'm wanting to use Heroku Scheduler to run a script that calls the Botpress scheduler API and creates a one-off task each day. This is intended as a work-around for #1106