requests-iamauth 1.0.0

AWS IAM Authorizer.

Requests IAMAuth

Use AWS SigV4 authorization with requests.

Accessing an API secured with IAM authorization in AWS API Gateway can be tricky.

This tool uses the built-in authorization strategy in requests to help you access your secured endpoints.

Installation

pip install requests-iamauth

Usage

Signing Version 4

AWS sigv4 is the current standard for signing requests bound for AWS services.

Use requests-iamauth to as an authorizer for the requests Python library:

import requests
from iamauth import Sigv4Auth

sigv4 = Sigv4Auth(
  service_name="execute-api",  # default
)

session = requests.Session()
session.auth = sigv4
session.get('https://abcdef0123.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/my/api')

Override the default boto3 session by passing a custom one into the constructor for Sigv4Auth:

import boto3

sigv4 = Sigv4Auth(
  boto3_session=boto3.Session(),
)

Signing Version 4a

AWS sigv4a is an extension to the sigv4 signing process that enables signing requests bound for more than one region.

Note — at the time of this writing, the only API Gateway API type that appears to support the new sigv4a are REST APIs.

Use requests-iamauth to as an authorizer for the requests Python library:

import requests
from iamauth import Sigv4aAuth

sigv4a = Sigv4aAuth(
  service="execute-api",  # default
  region="*",             # default
)

session = requests.Session()
session.auth = sigv4a
session.get('https://abcdef0123.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/my/api')

Override the default AWS credentials provider by passing a custom one into the constructor for Sigv4aAuth:

from botocore.compat import awscrt

sigv4a = Sigv4aAuth(
  credentials_provider=awscrt.auth.AwsCredentialsProvider.new_default_chain(),
)