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New to Python and web scraping here. I'm trying to understand the Basic Access Authentication parameter in the requests library. For example, if I am trying to use the post method as follows:

requests.post("www.somewebsite.com", data = some_data, auth = ('user', 'pass'))

What exactly is the 'user' and 'pass' parameter? Do I need to create an account for that respective website and pass in my account's username and password? I tried running my query without the 'auth' parameter and I return a 403 status code, so it is my understanding that I need to include the 'auth' parameter.

Any advice regarding this will help, thank you.

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Any Api have it's own authentication process. You mentioned Github, which requires a username and password to authenticate. Some Api's may require some kind of access-token or stuff like that.

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Great, thank you! So I am assuming I would need to generate a username and password, or an access-token from the website to gain access.

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