How can I pass my API key through header while making request to Stackoverflow API using python

 headers = {'APIKEY':'----my API key here-----'}

 response =  requests.get('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users?page=1&pagesize=5&order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow',headers=headers)

"quota_max":300,"quota_remaining":299

This shows that max quota is 300 but I think I should get max quota of 10000 as mentioned on stackoverflow's API page. Please help me out if I am passing my API key the wrong way, while making the requests. What is the right way to do it?

Solution

Not sure where you got APIKEY from but it should be access_token, and it should be a url parameter. Pass access_token as a url parameter in a dict instead. You can also include the other parameters in your url.

url = 'https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users'
params = {'access_token': my_token, 'page': 1, 'pagesize': 5, 
          'order': 'desc', 'sort': 'reputation', 'site': 'stackoverflow'}
response = requests.get(url, params=params)