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title: Introduction
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createdAt: 2025-08-10T08:07:31.584Z
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For testing the API within the folder "API Reference" please make sure to add the prober basic authentication header first!

We are using [Basic authentication](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Authorization#basic_authentication) so you need to construct the credentials first combining any string as first value and the password (your api key) with a colon. Then encode the string [base64](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Base64).

Fill in the generated auth header here:

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/aUijnLbL2sjZsuMhyRm5F/d_jW-9WNyTg9G9EUOQdEW_image.png)