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python requests module basic auth

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Module Basic Auth

If you are working with web APIs that require authentication, you will need the Python Requests module to make authenticated requests. The requests module is used to send HTTP requests using Python.

Basic authentication is one of the simplest authentication methods. It requires a username and password combination to access a resource. In Python, you can use the Requests module to make HTTP Basic Auth requests.

Using the requests module for basic auth

When making a basic auth request with the requests module, you need to pass in the username and password as a tuple in the headers parameter.


        import requests
        
        url = 'https://my-api.com/data'
        headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic ' + b64encode(b'username:password').decode('utf-8')}
        
        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
  • Line 1: Import the Requests module
  • Line 3: Define the URL of the resource you want to access
  • Line 4: Create the headers dictionary with the Authorization key and the Basic auth string. The string is encoded using base64encode() method.
  • Line 6: Make a GET request to the URL passing headers as a parameter

Using the HTTPBasicAuth object

You can also use the HTTPBasicAuth object to create a Basic Authentication request in Python:


        import requests
        from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
        
        url = 'https://my-api.com/data'
        auth = HTTPBasicAuth('username', 'password')
        
        response = requests.get(url, auth=auth)
  • Line 3: Import the HTTPBasicAuth object from the requests.auth module
  • Line 5: Define the URL of the resource you want to access
  • Line 6: Create an instance of the HTTPBasicAuth object with your username and password
  • Line 8: Make a GET request to the URL passing auth as a parameter
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