API Connector Authentication

Need help APIs
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I want to use Customer.io API to send an event that will trigger an email. The instructions for authentication are as follows:

Basic Auth (Tracking API Key)

The Track API uses a basic authentication scheme. Your credentials are your Site ID and your API key, Base-64 encoded in the format site_id:api_key.

When I enter in my Site ID and API Key encoded in Base64, I still get a status code 401 error.

Can someone explain how to fix it?

Thanks,

Lucas

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Can you share api connector settings? You could use basic auth or use private key in header
When you encode in base64, this should be private key in header.

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Here are my api connector settings.

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I followed the instructions for encoding in base64. Maybe I am entering in the site_id: api_key improperly. Here is the cURL example on the documentation:

–header “Authorization: Basic $(echo -n site_id:api_key | base64)” \

I am using this site to convert my site_id and api_key: https://www.base64encode.org/

How should I enter this information into the key value? I think that’s what’s tripping me up.

Thanks,

Lucas

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I figured it out. Turns out I just had to google “basic authenticator header generator” and found this site:

Works like a charm.