topic Re: Qlik Rest Connection to Okta API in Connectivity & Data Prep

Qlik Rest Connection to Okta API

steverosebrook — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 15:05:01 GMT

Our company has built a new website, and we're using Okta to handle signon/identify management. I've gotten a request to create some Qlik dashboards showing new user information, counts, etc. I'm currently trying to connect to Okta's API, but I'm having issues with paging.

I can connect to the API OK, and even pull in the first 200 users (that's the default Okta page limit) - using the following URL: https://<ourcompanyname>.oktapreview.com/api/v1/users

I'm trying to figure out how to get the Qlik Rest connector set up to handle the paging aspect - i.e. to pull in the next 200 users and keep going until all users have been pulled in.

I think maybe the magic should happen in the paging configuration section of the Rest connector, but I'm not sure what to put in there. I've discovered that the HTTPS header has a field in it called "link" that seems to have the next URL, but I'm not having any luck yet. I've tried a number of different "Next URL Path" combinations (see an example below) - but nothing has worked (I'm only able to pull in the first 200 users and that's it).

I've also tried unsuccessfully to do looping in the load script, using the WITH CONNECTION override. Once again, I just don't know what parameters and values to use.

Has anyone out there been able to connect successfully to Okta and handle paging correctly?

Thanks,

Steve

Re: Qlik Rest Connection to Okta API

nandini_chatter — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:07:29 GMT

We have the exact same issue. We are trying to do reporting from the OKTA data in Qlik Sense. However cannot bring in anything more than 200 users or Apps or Groups through the REST API connector using Next Url as Pagination type and path as link.

Did you find a solution to this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Nandini

Re: Qlik Rest Connection to Okta API

steverosebrook — Sun, 12 May 2019 15:15:27 GMT

I finally was able to get this all to work. I had to create a loop in the load script to loop through the multiple data fetches until all the data was pulled in. I also had to add in a sleep command to keep Qlik from overloading Okta with requests (you're only allowed to send so many requests per minute through Okta).

I'm attaching screen shots of the connection details, as well as the qvf with the code that finally worked. Hopefully this is helpful to everyone having similar issues.

Steve

Re: Qlik Rest Connection to Okta API

Cvag — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:43:14 GMT

Hi @steverosebrook,

I tried this solutioning for Okta API, I believe there is some update on OKTA side due to which the script is not working.

I put this question Community as well
https://community.qlik.com/t5/New-to-Qlik-Analytics/OKTA-API-Connection-for-getting-users-Data/td-p/2464214

Thank you!