I am using JWT token authentication with Django REST
$ curl -X POST -d "username=admin&password=abc123" http://localhost:8000/api-token-auth/
and then
$ curl -H "Authorization: JWT <your_token>" http://localhost:8000/protected-url/
My points is if someone has to enter username / password in curl to get token and then use that token to get url in 2 steps. Then why not use username / password with basic authentication . as that will be with one request only.
What advantage will token give us . we have to type username / password anyway in token AUTH as well