Authenticate to api.zyte.com with HTTP Basic auth, key as username, blank password. The trailing colon in --user KEY: matters - it denotes the empty password. Do not send the key as a Bearer [redacted] or a query parameter; those fail. This is the single most common first-call failure against the API.

Context: Zyte field notes (scraping-vendors.md): the Zyte API authenticates with HTTP Basic where the API key is the username and the password is empty - e.g. curl --user YOUR_ZYTE_API_KEY - against POST https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.

## Matched source
Source: Published skill
Original query: "Zyte API auth is HTTP Basic - key as username, empty password"
Key terms: auth, basic, empty, http, password, username, zyte

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_YvC6yRKkXCASm8_Y0IEGDA/versions/skv_m7Y-fnvlaWueFE1c6MK24g>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_YvC6yRKkXCASm8_Y0IEGDA>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_YvC6yRKkXCASm8_Y0IEGDA/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

```json
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  "client": null,
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    "https://github.com/betalyra/effect-uai/blob/HEAD/plans/browser/scraping-vendors.md"
  ]
}
```