Authentication

There are two ways of authenticating requests made to the SMSLeopard API.

• Headers Authorization
• URL Parameters Authorization

The above authentication methods require that you generate API keys from your account.

Header Authorization

If you are integrating with the SMSLeopard API without depending on a third-party implementation of an SMS client, kindly use Header Authorization. This authorization scheme uses a base64 encoding of the api_key and api_secret string combined with a colon i.e. base64(api_key:api_secret) . The resulting string is then included as the value for the authorization header as basic authorization.

Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=

Below is a demonstration of how to perform base64 encoding

Code Examples

import base64
 
# Replace these with your actual api_key and api_secret
api_key = 'your_api_key'
api_secret = 'your_api_secret'
 
# Combine api_key and api_secret with a colon
credentials = f'{api_key}:{api_secret}'
 
# Convert the combined string to base64 encoding
base64_credentials = base64.b64encode(credentials.encode()).decode()
 
# Include base64_credentials in the authorization header
headers = {
    'Authorization': f'Basic {base64_credentials}'
}
 
# Now you can use the 'headers' dictionary in your API request