All requests need to be authenticated. If an API key isn’t provided, or an invalid API key is used, an error will be returned.

Unauthenticated response

{
    "Status": "401",
    "Message": "Not authorized"
}

Authentication example

API keys are added to the request header, with a key of “Authorization”.

CURL

curl -v -H @{'Authorization' = 'api_key'} https://api.retrocrypt.com/rest/v1/endpoint

PHP

<?php
$endpoint = '/game/random';
$api_key = 'my_secret_key';

$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.retrocrypt.com/rest/v1'.$endpoint);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Accept: application/json',
    'Authorization: '.$api_key,
));
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$result = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));
curl_close($curl);

WordPress

$endpoint = '/game/random';
$api_key = 'my_secret_key';

$resp = wp_remote_get('https://api.retrocrypt.com/rest/v1'.$endpoint, array(
    'headers' => array(
        'Authorization' => $api_key,
    )
));