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python requests with authentication

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests with Authentication

If you want to perform HTTP requests in Python, then the Requests library is a great choice. It allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests with authentication, cookies, and more. To use it with authentication, you can simply pass the credentials as parameters to the request method. There are several ways to do this:

Basic Authentication

Basic authentication is the most common method of authentication. It involves sending a username and password in the HTTP header of each request. To use basic authentication with Requests, you can pass the username and password as a tuple to the auth parameter of the request method:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/users'
auth = ('username', 'password')

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

print(response.json())

Token Authentication

Token authentication is another popular method of authentication. It involves generating a token on the server and sending it to the client. The client then sends the token in the HTTP header of each request. To use token authentication with Requests, you can pass the token as a parameter to the headers parameter of the request method:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/users'
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer token'}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Digest Authentication

Digest authentication is a more secure method of authentication. It involves sending a hashed value of the password in the HTTP header of each request. To use digest authentication with Requests, you can pass the username and password as a tuple to the auth parameter of the request method with the digest method:


import requests

url = 'https://api.example.com/users'
auth = ('username', 'password')

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

print(response.json())
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