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The document discusses using the Python requests library to make an API GET request with authentication, as is normally done using cURL. It provides an example cURL command using authentication headers. The author is trying to replicate this in Python using requests but is getting a 401 error when including authentication headers. They are looking for help getting the authentication to work in the requests code.

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The document discusses using the Python requests library to make an API GET request with authentication, as is normally done using cURL. It provides an example cURL command using authentication headers. The author is trying to replicate this in Python using requests but is getting a 401 error when including authentication headers. They are looking for help getting the authentication to work in the requests code.

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I am trying to write a Python script that will allow me to accomplish what I normally would by using

CURL to perform an API "GET". I have browsed through some questions on here but I am still a bit
confused on how to do this; from what I have seen, I can use the "requests" library like this:

URL = requests.get("www.example.com/123")

However, the Curl command I normally run uses authentication as well. Here is an example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: hibnn:11111:77788777YT666:CAL1' 'http://api.example.com/v1.11/user?


id=123456

Can I still use the requests library when creating a script to pull this data? Specifically, I would need to be
able to pass along the authentication info along with the URL itself.

Update:

Here is what my code looks like:

import requests

import json

url = ("api.example.com/v1.11/user?id=123456")

header = {"Authorization": "hibnn:11111:77788777YT666:CAL1"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=header)

print(response.json)

However, I am getting a response [401] error. I think I am probably doing something wrong with my
headers, can anyone help?

pythonpython-2.7

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You may pass headers as keyword argument to the get method.

>>> url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'

>>> headers = {'user-agent': 'my-app/0.0.1'}

>>> r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

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