I am trying to write a Python script that will allow me to accomplish what I normally would by using

CURL to perform an API "GET". I have browsed through some questions on here but I am still a bit
confused on how to do this; from what I have seen, I can use the "requests" library like this:

URL = requests.get("www.example.com/123")

However, the Curl command I normally run uses authentication as well. Here is an example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: hibnn:11111:77788777YT666:CAL1' 'http://api.example.com/v1.11/user?

id=123456

Can I still use the requests library when creating a script to pull this data? Specifically, I would need to be
able to pass along the authentication info along with the URL itself.

Update:

Here is what my code looks like:

import requests

import json

url = ("api.example.com/v1.11/user?id=123456")

header = {"Authorization": "hibnn:11111:77788777YT666:CAL1"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=header)

print(response.json)

However, I am getting a response [401] error. I think I am probably doing something wrong with my
headers, can anyone help?

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You may pass headers as keyword argument to the get method.

>>> url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'

>>> headers = {'user-agent': 'my-app/0.0.1'}

>>> r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)