Unable to use services requiring an API Login

[anakaine]

Where an API login page is presented the esridump tool ceases to function.
There are cases where a service is accessed using legitimate credentials, but the esridump tool does not have a facility for authentication such as either username/password, or token.

[iandees]

Thanks for reporting this. From what I've been able to discern, the login process gives you an API token that can then be used by the tool as-is. I've never had to use a login though, so I'm not sure how it should work. I'd appreciate a pull request or an example layer that requires a password.

[anakaine]

I'll have a sample service for you soon.

Please keep an eye on your gmail for details

[iandees]

I think I'd prefer to keep login functionality out of pyesridump. You can use the server's "generateToken" endpoint (/arcgis/tokens/generateToken) to create an API token and then pass that in to esri2geojson command line or in the extra_query_args param in the EsriDumper object.

The login process requires that the user pass in a new URL to esridump system (the URL to generate tokens can be different and isn't deterministic).

I think I'll update the documentation/readme to point that process out.

[marhensa]

any update of documentation to use mapservice with a token?

edit. i get it, it's something like this:

esri2geojson -p token=xxxxlongstringsoftokensxxx https://some.site/server/rest/services/folders/folder/MapServer/0 output.geojson

[anakaine]

4 years since the last discussion, and I've not looked at the process since, but: a mapservice generally returns either images, or a feature at a point whose coordinated have been queried. It does not return a list of features which can then be queried by their IDs, which is what the script was doing last I looked. Locking stuff up in a map service makes extraction difficult.

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[iandees]

something like this:

esri2geojson -p token=xxxxlongstringsoftokensxxx https://some.site/server/rest/services/folders/folder/MapServer/0 output.geojson

Yep, pass the token you retrieved through other means as a URL parameter using the -p argument to esri2geojson.