successfactors-auth 0.0.5

Authenticate to the SuccessFactors API.

SuccessFactors Auth

Authenticate with the SAP SuccessFactors API with OAuth2 and Python.

How to use

1. Create an OAuth application in SuccessFactors.
2. Download the private key and copy the Client ID.
3. Install the Python module:

   pip install successfactors_auth
   

4. Import successfactors_auth into your Python >=3.9 project.
5. Call the successfactors_auth.auth() function in your Python project. You'll need to pass the following parameters:
   • sf_url: Base API url of your SuccessFactors instance, e.g. "https://api55.sapsf.eu".
   • sf_company_id: SuccessFactors company ID.
   • sf_oauth_client_id: The Client ID for the OAuth application you created earlier.
   • sf_admin_user: An admin user in SuccessFactors that has access to the OAuth application.
   • sf_saml_private_key: Path to the private key file you downloaded when you created the OAuth application.

Example

#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests
import successfactors_auth

sf_url = 'https://your.base.url.com'
sf_company_id = 'your-company-id'
sf_oauth_client_id = 'your_app_client_id'
sf_admin_user = 'your_admin_user'
sf_saml_private_key = 'your_app_private_key.pem'

token = successfactors_auth.auth(
    sf_url,
    sf_company_id,
    sf_oauth_client_id,
    sf_admin_user,
    sf_saml_private_key,
    sf_saml_template
    )

headers = {
    "Accept: application/json",
    f"Authorization: {token}"
}

request = requests.get(f"{sf_url}/User", headers=headers)
user = request.json()

print(user)

Background

I wrote this module because I was forced to deal with the horrific SAP SuccessFactors API at my job, and I wanted to make sure other devs/sysadmins wouldn't have to feel the pain that I felt.

Once you get authenticated, getting the information you want is a whole new level of suffering. I hope to publish some more examples in the form of a blog post or docs in this repo.

Contributing

All contributions welcome! Feel free to file an issue or open a pull request.