4.How to Implement API Key Authentication in ASP.NET Core Web API | Step-by-Step Guide with Code

Published: 19 January 2025
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Master the art of securing your ASP.NET Core Web API with API Key Authentication! In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through a practical and detailed implementation of API Key Authentication to protect your endpoints from unauthorized access.

✅ What you’ll learn:

Why API Key Authentication is essential for Web APIs.
Step-by-step setup of API Key Authentication using custom middleware.
Practical examples to implement API keys in real-world scenarios.
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📌 Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to the video
00:41 Quick recap
01:25 Start implementing Api Key based authentication
01:49 Implementing API key authentication Middleware
01:56 Request delegate
04:01 Implementing the async method for authentication
04:35 Intercepting the request
07:01 Middleware
10:02: Updating swagger settings
11:58 First round of testing
14:12 Removing the 'Basic authentication'
15:02 Second round of testing
15:43 Interview question about API keys management

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