Struggling to authenticate to API in Node-RED but works in Postman

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Would appreciate a little help as a Node-RED noob please.

I'm trying to authenticate to an API within Node-RED and the developers have used either HTTP Basic Authorization or JSON POST.

So my first step was to test the HTTP Basic Authorization in Postman:

I used the POST method
and under Auth selected "Basic Auth"
and then entered my Username and Password

When I click send the Body comes back with an array of objects and the one of interest to me is the token which is a string that I will be able to use to authenticate subsequent queries to the API presumably.

Two questions:

  1. How can I replicate this Basic Auth in Node-RED and return the token? And would it be better to JSON POST instead and if so how to go about doing that?
  2. How can I use the token in my subsequent requests to the API?

There is alot of information online about public API's when you can use a key. Would appreciate any words from the wise.

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A basic auth request is already built-in

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Did you try this ?

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Thank you for your reply. Apologies for the delay in a return post. I ended up abandoning the API integration and using an MQTT broker which I set up as an intermediary between the modbus gateway that I needed to communicate with and the end points. MQTT works very well. Still struggling with authentication on the MosQuiTTo broker so I think I've for now turned off the passwords to test comms and will re-enable them when I move this system into production.

I do need to learn the API method but I'm finding the vendors documentation to be quite weak. Wasting a lot of time trying to improve it and eventually said let me try another method

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