Get Request Workspace ID Asana Javascript

Question

I'm trying to do a get request via javascript/jquery to attain all of my workspace IDs in asana. I know when I just put the URL in the browser, asana returns all of my workspace IDs. However, when I do a GET request of the same URL, I'm getting a 401 error (Not Authorized).

How do i fix this? I know after I do a login through OAuth I am provided a token, am I supposed to do something with that?

$.get("https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/workspaces", function(data){
  alert("Data: " + data);
});

Also, please do not tell me to do it on the server side instead. I'm doing a simple web application and I'm doing it with javascript/jquery. That is not an answer. Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to authenticate your request, either using OAuth or the API Key. If you're developing an application for others to use, and you want them to be able to access their Asana data, you probably want to use OAuth - if it's just for a script you run for yourself, your API Key should be fine.

Generally speaking, OAuth has enough nuances that if you're using it (and not intimately familiar with it), we'd recommend using a library of some kind. If you're using jQuery, perhaps https://gist.github.com/andyedinborough/1012960 would help? (Caveat: I haven't tried it myself)

The short version of OAuth is that you need to get a token, which you can then pass to the API in the form of an HTTP header of the form Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN. It sounds like you already have a token, so you just need to add the header and it should work. And yet, GET is the correct verb to use here.