--- title: Different ways to authenticate your APIs | daily.dev description: Using basic authentication for authenticating users is usually not recommended since sending the user credentials for every request is a bad practice. API keys... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Different ways to authenticate your APIs | daily.dev og:description: Using basic authentication for authenticating users is usually not recommended since sending the user credentials for every request is a bad practice. API keys... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eWzNuhyhk.png og:image:alt: Different ways to authenticate your APIs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Different ways to authenticate your APIs **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@apoorvtyagi](https://daily.dev/apoorvtyagi) · 4 min read · 26 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Using basic authentication for authenticating users is usually not recommended since sending the user credentials for every request is a bad practice. API keys are a way to authenticate an application accessing any API without referencing an actual user. OAuth specifies mechanisms where an application can ask a user for access to services on behalf of the user, and receive a token as proof. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@babs** · 4 upvotes > I use JWT to secure my API especially in spring security --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Different ways to authenticate your APIs","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk"},"datePublished":"2020-10-02T05:21:51.161Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Using basic authentication for authenticating users is usually not recommended since sending the user credentials for every request is a bad practice. 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