Add API key to a header in a DRF browsable API page

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I am enabling token/api-key authentication on my API. But once I enable it, I can no longer use the browsable API page of the DRF. I know I can disable the authentication while developing, but this is a question of curiosity: Can I add an api-key to the header of each request sent to the browsable API page? Can I do that by tweaking the Browser settings? Or is it possible to tweak the Browsable API page itself and hardcode the api-key into it?

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1 Answers

The better way to handle the situation is to add the SessionAuthentication to the DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES section in your settings

# settings.py

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": [
        "rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication",
        "rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication",
    ],
}

More precisely,

# settings.py

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": [
        "rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication",
    ],
}
if DEBUG:
    REST_FRAMEWORK["DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES"].append(
        "rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication"
    )

By doing this, you can either use your APIKey or session key to authenticate the requests.

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