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Clarify Python library authentication page purpose (home-assistant#2767)
Co-authored-by: askMartyn <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Martin Hjelmare <[email protected]>
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sidebar_label: Authentication
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This page is intended for general API development of a 3rd party library aiming to integrate a 3rd party API. See [Home Assistant REST API documentation](/docs/api/rest.md) for interacting with Home Assistant's API.
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The Authentication part of your library is responsible for acquiring authentication and for making authenticated requests. It should not be aware of what is in the requests.
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Authentication comes in many forms, but it generally boils down to that each request is accompanied by an `authorization` header which contains an access token. The access token is generally a string of random numbers/letters.

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