Authentication

You'll need to authenticate your requests to access any of the endpoints in the 411Data API. In this guide, we'll look at how authentication works. 411Data offers basic authentication to authenticate your API requests.

Basic authentication

With basic authentication, you use your username and password to authenticate your HTTP requests. Unless you have a very good reason, you probably shouldn't use basic auth. Here's how to authenticate using cURL:

curl https://api.411data.io/v1/retailer_keys \
  -u username:password