Axios first attempt

API Question
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Hi,

This is my first attempt, so sorry if this has a very obvious solution.

I’ve crawled through the questions and haven’t been able to find a clear solution. I have been trying to do a simple get request (via Axios), I have done this on APIs that didn’t need authorisation, but cannot seem to work out how to do it for companies house.
My request is basically:

const res = await axios.get(https://api.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06219884/officers, { ‘headers’: { ‘Authorization’: token } });

Please can you let me know where I’m going wrong. I only want to just do a basic get request for the directors of a company, so if I’ve overcomplicated this please let me know.

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What error do you get? Is this running in the browser or in a Node app?

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Can you put your code into a github gist? This will allow for easier debugging.

There’s missing quotes from your URL and it’s not clear if you’ve added the token properly to the header.

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The API uses http basic auth with the key as the username and no password. To specify basic auth in axios, you use a specific ‘auth’ option, which you are missing. Also, put the URL in single quotes. The request should be something like:

axios.get(’…url…’, { auth: { username: ‘…key…’ , password: ‘’ } } );