Postman Tutorial - Authorize API Requests using Basic Auth

Learn how to use Basic Auth Authorization type for any API request in Postman.

Basic Auth requires an username and password for the API to be authorized. The Authorization key and value is passed in the header of the API request. But the username:password should be encoded in Base64 format, or else the request will fail.

Sample API for Basic Auth:
Username: postman
Password: password

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[shankarga]

Thank - Very well explained - crisp and to the point.

[vijaybisen]

thank you so much it is very important to see realtime example

[harshitshetty]

can we give any user name or password or is it something specified already in postman or my spring boot project application?

[Shani_Rajawat]

From front end side we need to pass as encoded or raw form?

[vikaskewalramani]

I choose basic auth, i enter right credentials, it even shows status as 200 OK, but when I carry out any API process it shows session expired, 401 Unauthorised, I am confused here..

[harshitshetty]

I followed the same step but still getting the 404 unauthorized

[world_of_wonder_]

Thanks for the quick guild it's really helped me.

[dinesha]

where this user name and password are configured?

[trisha]

Where username and password is configured..

[vikaskewalramani]

Could you make one video on how to do this by API Keys?

[praveenkl]

Thanks for sharing, Please help me where to get a username and password?