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Day 06: Handling Authentication and Headers

Introduction

Many APIs require authentication to access their endpoints. You can also customize the headers of your requests to send additional information.

Key Concepts

  • Authentication: *Use the auth parameter to handle basic HTTP authentication.
  • Custom Headers: Pass custom headers using the headers parameter.

Basic Authentication:

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

response = requests.get('https://api.example.com/secure', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('username', 'password'))
print(response.status_code)

Custom Headers:

headers = {'User-Agent': 'MyApp/1.0'}
response = requests.get('https://api.example.com/data', headers=headers)
print(response.headers)

Challenges

Challenge 1: Basic Authentication

Send a GET request to an API that requires basic authentication.

Challenge 2: Custom Headers

Write a script to send a GET request with custom headers and print the response.

Challenge 3: API Key Authentication

Use an API key to authenticate and retrieve data from a public API. For example at demo.nautobot.com.