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How do you handle API authentication in Python (Bearer token)?

Anubhav Sharma 690 06 Nov 2025

1 Answers

Anubhav Sharma 06 Nov 2025

Answer:

You can use the requests:

import requests

# Replace this with your actual access token
ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_actual_access_token_here"

# Set up authorization headers
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}"
}

# Send the GET request
response = requests.get("https://api.example.com/profile", headers=headers)

# Check for errors before parsing JSON
if response.ok:
    print(response.json())
else:
    print(f"Request failed with status code {response.status_code}")
    print(response.text)

You can also use Basic Auth:

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

# Replace with your actual username and password
USERNAME = "your_username_here"
PASSWORD = "your_password_here"

# Send GET request with Basic Authentication
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.example.com",
    auth=HTTPBasicAuth(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
)

# Check response status and handle results
if response.ok:
    print("Request succeeded!")
    print(response.json())  # or response.text if not JSON
else:
    print(f"Request failed with status code {response.status_code}")
    print(response.text)

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