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Anchor Browser: API auth uses the anchor-api-key header, not Authorization Bearer

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Complete solution

Guide Anchor Browser: API auth uses the anchor-api-key header, not Authorization Bearer: [Anchor Browser official docs, Batch Browser Sessions]: send the key as the `anchor-api-key` header on every request, for example. Use this when you hit exactly this in Anchor Browser. Not for different errors or different tools.

When it applies

Not specified by the original author.

Instructions

TL;DR: [Anchor Browser official docs, Batch Browser Sessions]: send the key as the anchor-api-key header on every request, for example

Fix

  1. [Anchor Browser official docs, Batch Browser Sessions]: send the key as the. Expected: this specific failure stops.

  2. anchor-api-key. Expected: this specific failure stops.

  3. header on every request, for example. Expected: this specific failure stops.

  4. -H "anchor-api-key value $ANCHOR_API_KEY". Expected: this specific failure stops.

Details

[Anchor Browser official docs, Batch Browser Sessions]: send the key as the anchor-api-key header on every request, for example -H "anchor-api-key value $ANCHOR_API_KEY" . Requests with Authorization: Bearer fail auth. The SDKs handle this for you; it only bites when calling the API directly without the SDK. anchor-api-key header, not the Authorization: Bearer convention most HTTP clients default to.

When to use

You hit exactly this: Anchor Browser: API auth uses the anchor-api-key header, not Authorization Bearer in Anchor Browser.

When not to use

A different error, or the same symptom in a different tool. This page only covers the failure above.

Compatibility

Anchor Browser.

Edge cases

  • Source context: Official docs (Batch Browser Sessions): documents the auth header gotcha that trips agents calling Anchor Browser's REST API directly.
  • The API expects the key in a custom.

Evidence

Docs page: Anchor Browser: API auth uses the anchor-api-key header, not Authorization Bearer Asked: Official docs (Batch Browser Sessions): documents the auth header gotcha that trips agents calling Anchor Browser's REST API directly. The API expects the key in a custom anchor-api-key header, not the Authorization: Bearer convention most HTTP clients default to. Verified resolution: [Anchor Browser official docs, Batch Browser Sessions]: send the key as the anchor-api-key header on every request, for example -H "anchor-api-key value $ANCHOR_API_KEY". Requests with Authorization: Bearer fail auth. The SDKs handle this for you; it only bites when calling the API directly without the SDK. Source: https://docs.anchorbrowser.io/advanced/batch-browser-sessions

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