How to pass API key in requests in Python?

How do you authenticate REST API in Python?

I am trying to learn how to authenticate a user's session when he is accessing the API.

I am using Django, and the API is being served using Rest API framework. The authentication for a normal site or web app in Django is handled in views.py, whereas I don't see anything for authentication in Rest API. I would like to know how do you authenticate your session or how do you handle your user's access when using REST API.

Thank you. This isn't the best idea. You should have the server keep track of who is logged into what application. This keeps your server and databases smaller, as you only need one database and one server.

If you really need to maintain this yourself, check out auth0.

Can API keys be used for authentication?

Hi I'm currently creating a social app with node and express server.

The thing is that I want to store credentials(api key) for other apps which they won't be able to get by using the username or email, but only the api key.

I have done the database thing, but I'm really new to this authentication concept of using api keys. Anyone please help me? you can create API keys per app just like username/password etc and grant or revoke them on permission basis, you don't need database for this. You should look at following articles for authentication: For node js authentication you need to use auth0. Check out their packages.

Also you need to handle your cookie handling in the middleware of node.