Add a per-user API key to authenticate in Django REST Framework
Install using pip:
pip install django_rest_apikey
Add 'django_rest_apikey' to INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'django_rest_apikey',
)
And add the authentication class:
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
...
'django_rest_apikey.authentication.APIKeyAuthentication',
),
...
}
Additionally, you can add this to your router to allow users to manage there API keys:
from django_rest_apikey.views import APIKeyViewSet
...
your_router.register(r'apikeys', APIKeyViewSet, base_name='apikeys')
Also, don't forget to create the new model in the database:
python manage.py migrate
The API-Key header is looked by the class to authenticate the user.
response = requests.get(
url="http://0.0.0.0:8000/api/your_model",
headers={
"Api-Key": "fd8b4a98c8f53035aeab410258430e2d86079c93",
},
)