Authentication

You will need your API key - get one here. There are three ways to authenticate:

Using the request header

Set the Api-Key key in the headers json.

Python example:

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Api-Key": "123abc",
    }

response = requests.post("https://api.plant.id/v2/usage_info",
                         headers=headers)

Basic authentication

See details here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Authorization. Use the following credentials:

• username: "client"
• password: YOUR_API_KEY

Python example:

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
     }

response = requests.post("https://api.plant.id/v2/usage_info",
                         headers=headers, auth=("client", "123abc"))

Passing a parameter in POSTed data

Add an "api_key" parameter to your request.

Python example:

params = {
    "api_key": "123abc",
    }

headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    }

response = requests.post("https://api.plant.id/v2/usage_info",
                         json=params,
                         headers=headers)