Base64 Authentication Python

Question

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\'

Answer 1

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.