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

The requests library has Basic Auth support and will encode it for you automatically. You can test it out by running the following in a python repl

from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
r = requests.post(api_URL, auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass'), data=payload)

You can confirm this encoding by typing the following.

r.request.headers['Authorization']

outputs:

u'Basic c2RhZG1pbmlzdHJhdG9yOiFTRG0wMDY4'