The REST API authentication lets you store your API credentials in a safe place. If you simply used your API-key in the REST API node, it would be part of the node's configuration and would be shown to you and other admins in your FactBranch account.
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Once you've entered your API credentials in the authentication, they are stored on FactBranch's servers, encrypted-at-rest and will never be shown again anywhere in your FactBranch account.
You can, however, use the authentication in your nodes. This allows you to save the credentials once and then re-use it in several nodes. You can even let another team member create nodes and use the authentication without them seeing the credentials.
To create a REST API authentication, click on Manage authentications in your Flows dashboard, and then click on Create authentication.
You can select one of the three most common HTTP auth methods:
To rename the authentication, either click on Rename next to the title, or double-click on the title itself. Then enter the new name and click on Save or hit Enter on your keyboard. To revert to the old name, hit the Escape key.
First create a REST API node in one of your Flows. Edit the node by clicking Edit next to the node in the Flow Editor. Select the Authentication tab on the left side of the screen. Then click on Select an authentication... - or on change... if that node already has an authentication associated. Select the authentication you'd like to use and from now on this node will use for all its requests the credentials you've stored in the authentication.
