# How to send the authorization header using Axios

> Learn how to send the Authorization header with Axios by adding a headers object to the config argument of axios.post() and axios.get() requests.

Author: Flavio Copes | Published: 2020-01-18 | Updated: 2020-07-04 | Canonical: https://flaviocopes.com/axios-send-authorization-header/

To set headers in an Axios POST request, pass a third object to the `axios.post()` call. 

You might already be using the second parameter to send data, and if you pass 2 objects after the URL string, the first is the data and the second is the configuration object, where you add a `headers` property containing another object:

```js
axios.post(url, {
  data: {
    ...
  }
})
```

```js
axios.post(url, {
  //...data
}, {
  headers: {
    ...
  }
})
```

To set the authorization header, call it like this:


```js
const token = '..your token..'

axios.post(url, {
  //...data
}, {
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Basic ${token}` 
  }
})
```

(the authorization token might differ, check with the app you're using)

To set headers in an Axios GET request, pass a second object to the `axios.get()` call, for example this is a [GitHub](https://flaviocopes.com/github/) GET request to `/user`:

```js
axios.get('https://api.github.com/user', {
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `token ${access_token}`
  }
})
.then((res) => {
  console.log(res.data)
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.error(error)
})
```

I was doing some work with the WordPress API, and I had to authenticate to perform a POST request to a website.

The easiest way for me was to use basic authentication.

I was using Axios, so I set the `Authorization` header to the POST request in this way:

```js
const username = ''
const password = ''

const token = Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`, 'utf8').toString('base64')

const url = 'https://...'
const data = {
  ...
}

axios.post(url, data, {
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Basic ${token}`
  },
})
```