Skip to main content

Get Support
Have a question? Let's get you an answer!

How Do I...? Troubleshooting Code & Webhooks Developer Zone

Other Help Resources
Wait, there's more! Check out these Community sourced spaces for additional resources.

Zapier Help Center Hire an Expert

Learning Resources
All of our best learning resources can be found here.

Featured Articles Show & Tell Zapier's products AI Hub Zapier Tools Hub

Share your knowledge
Give back to the Community by sharing your automation wins and helping to answer questions.

Share your success See unanswered questions User Groups

Other Learning Resources
Some of our favorite additional ways to upskill your Zapier knowledge.

Zapier Learn Zapier Blog Zapier Webinars

Product Updates
Check out what is new and upcoming with Zapier with our regular product updates.

Product Updates

Early Access Program
Want to join Early Access? Learn more here.

I’m build a zap to interact with a REST API calling a GET method and putting the information on google sheets.

 

The API uses Bearer Token method to authenticate. In webhook form, I only can set basic auth. 

 

How can I change the authenticate method to Bearer Token?

 

Hi @Caio Ferreira 

You can set in the Headers section at the bottom.

Left Side: Authorization

Right Side: Bearer TOKEN]

Hi @Troy Tessalone 

Thanks for answer.

I tried and returned HTTP 403 - Forbidden.

So, I tried to without “Bearer” before the token and returnd 401 - Unnauthorized

 

@Caio Ferreira 

Can you share screenshots of how your Webhooks step is currently configured?

 

 

@Caio Ferreira 

You appear to be using a REFRESH Token but likely should be an ACCESS Token.

I’d reference the APIs documentation to better understand the 401 and 403 errors you were getting.

Thanks!

 

I formated the field to change the word “REFRESH” to “AUTH” and works!.

I’m seeing the same issue. I even just tried to hardcode a valid access token in the header and continue to see the same 403 issue. Any inputs? 

 

 

Hi @Harsha 

 

It will largely depend on the type of API token the specific API authentication is looking for, but one way to convert a 'basic auth' code into a valid token is using the base64 encoder:

https://www.base64encode.org/

 

For example you can convert a basic auth sequence like below into a readable 'basic' token by entering into the coder to produce the required token string, then use the header 'Authorization' and output of 'Basic xxxxxxxxxxx' from the encoder.

 

Regards, Michael

consumer_key:consumer_secret

Reply


Terms & Conditions