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Authentication fails for REST requests to Shopware 5 using Postman

When making REST requests like GET http://<url-to-shop>/api/articles to my own Shopware 5 instance I always get

{
    "success": false,
    "message": "Invalid or missing auth"
}

as a response, even though I provide the correct credentials.

Solution

  • I solved it by going to http://<url-to-shop>/backend then to Settings -> User Administration -> edit User -> enable Api Access. Then I have to use the username of the user that I just enabled the API access for and most importantly I have to use the API-Key as the password in postman under the option Basic Auth like so:

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    Of course this also works with any other API-testing tool like Paw and others. I hope this saves you some time if you are trying to get this to work. Nowhere in the official documentation of Shopware 5 does it say that you are supposed to use the Api-Key as the password. They only write that the Api-Key is supposed to be "included" in the request: https://developers.shopware.com/developers-guide/rest-api/#basic-settings .