Authentication
What if you need to pass in your username and password to the API? Use the auth keyword argument.
Note: getpass() allows you to enter passwords without showing it.
from getpass import getpass
response = requests.get("https://api.github.com/user", auth=("my_username", getpass()))
print(response.status_code) ## 401 if failed
print(response.json())
Try not to log in incorrectly too many times or you’ll end up with a 403 Forbidden status code (that’s what happened to me!) Or you can be a rebel and try it (but will have to wait for a while to log in again later)!
Note that this feature is actually deprecated for the Github REST API (it’s used more as an example). You will need to use a Personal Access Token if you want to use this for real in the future!