I'm following an API and I need to use a Base64 authentication of my User Id and password.
'User ID and Password need to both be concatenated and then Base64 encoded'
it then shows the example
'userid:password'
It then proceeds to say:
'Provide the encoded value in an "Authorization Header"'
'for example: Authorization: BASIC {Base64-encoded value}'
How do I write this into a Python API request?
z = requests.post(url, data=zdata )
You can encode the data and make the request by doing the following:
import requests, base64
usrPass = "userid:password"
b64Val = base64.b64encode(usrPass)
r=requests.post(api_URL,
headers={"Authorization": "Basic %s" % b64Val},
data=payload)
I'm not sure if you've to add the "BASIC" word in the Authorization field or not. If you provide the API link, It'd be more clear.