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python requests library basic authentication

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Library Basic Authentication

If you want to make a request to a website that requires authentication, you can use the Python Requests library's built-in feature for Basic Authentication. With this feature, you can pass your username and password as parameters to the requests.get() or requests.post() method.

Here is an example:


import requests

url = "https://example.com/api/"
username = "myusername"
password = "mypassword"

response = requests.get(url, auth=(username, password))

print(response.text)

In the above code, we first import the requests library. Then we define the URL that we want to make a request to and our username and password. Next, we make a GET request to the URL with our authentication information using the auth parameter. Finally, we print out the response.

Alternative Method

Another way to use Basic Authentication with Requests is to create an authentication object and pass it as a parameter. Here is an example:


import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.com/api/"
username = "myusername"
password = "mypassword"

auth = HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)
response = requests.get(url, auth=auth)

print(response.text)

In this example, we first import the HTTPBasicAuth object from the requests.auth module. We then define our URL and authentication information. Next, we create an HTTPBasicAuth object with our username and password. Finally, we make a GET request to the URL with our authentication object passed as a parameter and print out the response.

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