How to authenticate static routes in FastAPI

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I am statically serving a folder via FastAPI following the documentation:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles

app = FastAPI()

app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")

How can I add basic authentication (user, password) to this route /static?

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Im not sure you can add basic authentication to the route itself I add it directly to the endpoint. But here's a link with the best auth modules for fastapi. Hope it helps. I like FastAPI Login.

FastAPI Auth

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Pulled directly from the FastAPI docs: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/security/http-basic-auth/

import secrets

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, HTTPException, status
from fastapi.security import HTTPBasic, HTTPBasicCredentials

app = FastAPI()

security = HTTPBasic()


def get_current_username(credentials: HTTPBasicCredentials = Depends(security)):
    correct_username = secrets.compare_digest(credentials.username, "stanleyjobson")
    correct_password = secrets.compare_digest(credentials.password, "swordfish")
    if not (correct_username and correct_password):
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
            detail="Incorrect email or password",
            headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Basic"},
        )
    return credentials.username


@app.get("/users/me")
def read_current_user(username: str = Depends(get_current_username)):
    return {"username": username}
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