How to check if the user is a guest or logged in at laravel api

Question

Auth()->check() keeps returning false. The api is has api middleware only and I want both guests and logged in users to use it.

I tried taking the authorization token from the request header, but I don't know of any way to check which user has this token.

if(Auth()->check()){
        //return extra data
} else {
        //return something else
}

Why is Auth()->check() is always returning false even though Ive bearer token inside the header?? It should return true if the header has a token

Answer 1

you may specify guard name

if(auth('api')->check()){
          //return extra data
} else {
         //return something else
}