# JWT Authentication class for python requests

When using the [requests library](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/authentication/) in Python you can use some built-in auth mechanisms like HTTPBasicAuth and HTTPDigestAuth. However, I could not find any package that allows doing a simple JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, so I decided to make a snippet.

```python
jwt_auth = JWTAuth(
    auth_url='https://endpoint.example/api/v1/auth',
    api_payload={
        'api_key': '<API_KEY>',
        'api_secret': '<API_SECRET>',
    }
)
# Using it directly
requests.get('some-url', auth=jwt_auth)

# Or when applied to a session for all requests:
session = requests.Session()
session.auth = jwt_auth
```

JWTAuth needs to know your `auth_url` and `api_payload` to be able to authenticate with the server on your first request. It will only work when you receive back an access and refresh token. Based on your situation and API response, you might need to change this a little to make it work.

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