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Basic Authentication with requests

Basic Authentication is the simplest authentication method for web APIs. It works like logging into a website. To gain access, you need to send your personal username and password along with every request. Using this username and password, the API can identify you and grant you access to the requested data.

Let's first learn how a server responds when authentication fails, and then let's fix it by using Basic Authentication.

Good to know:

  1. The requests package has already been imported.
  2. You can use the username [email protected] and the password Warp_ExtrapolationsForfeited2 to authenticate.

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  • Check the numeric status code value on the request object for a successful response.
  • Also check for a failed authentication request which has a specific status-code too.