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# Authentication

## API access

The Chariot API uses API keys to authenticate requests.

Your API keys carry many privileges, so be sure to keep them secure!
Do not share your secret API keys in publicly accessible areas such as GitHub, client-side code, and so forth.

Authentication to the API is performed via HTTP Bearer Token. Provide your API key as the `Authentication: Bearer {TOKEN}` value.

All API requests must be made over HTTPS. Calls made over plain HTTP will fail. API requests without authentication will also fail.

```curl
curl https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc"
```

**`C#`**

```csharp C#
var client = new RestClient("https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

**`Go`**

```go Go
package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605"

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

  // Add the Authorization header with the Bearer token
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(res)
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

**`Java`**

```java Java
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc")
  .asString();
```

**`jQuery`**

```javascript jQuery
var settings = {
  "async": true,
  "crossDomain": true,
  "url": "https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605",
  "method": "GET",
  "headers": {
    "Authorization": "Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc"
  }
}

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});
```

**`NodeJS`**

```javascript NodeJS
var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605',
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
```

**`PHP`**

```php PHP
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

**`Python`**

```python Python
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.givechariot.com")

headers = { 'Authorization': "Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc" }

conn.request("GET", "/v1/nonprofit/530196605", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))
```

**`Ruby`**

```ruby Ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.givechariot.com/v1/nonprofit/530196605")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```