4. Authentication

What is Authentication?

Authentication is the process of verifying who you are to an API before being able to affect your Data via the API. Typically, when APIs allow you to edit real data, they will require authentication.

Whenever you log in to a website you are providing authentication with your user details (Username / Email / Password).

Much like websites, APIs can have Username/Password authentication, but there are also other ways to handle authentication. Some APIs have only one way to Authenticate, whereas other APIs offer different authorization methods.

In this lesson, we will go through the most common authentication types and how to set them up in Cyclr.