I asked a question earlier today about making an ajax call with the ZenDesk API.

I can successfully run the following in command prompt and create a ticket in ZenDesk (my_api_token is the API token string):

curl https://mydomain.zendesk.com/api/v2/tickets.json 

  -d '{ticket: {subject: Test ticket from API, comment: { body: Just a test -kawnah }}}' 

  -H Content-Type: application/json -u [email protected]/token:my_api_token -X POST

What I'm trying to understand now is how this translates into an ajax call. This is the documentation I'm following.

What I am doing at the moment is below:

$.ajax({

        type: 'post',

        url: 'https://domain.zendesk.com/api/v2/tickets.json',

        data: {

          ticket: {

            subject: new contact from  + $('#contactFormEmail').val(),

            comment: {

              body: $('#contactFormMessage').val()

            }

          }

        },

        // ==========================================================

        // This is where I'm confused....

        // How do I authorize the API via the token? It's here right?

        // I'm trying it via standard setRequestHeader Authorization

        // For learning purposes in my local copy I'm pasting the key 

        // straight in, just to get it working.

        // I know this is bad practice. 

        // ==========================================================

        beforeSend : function( xhr ) {

            xhr.setRequestHeader( 'Authorization', 'BEARER my_api_token' );

        },

        success: function( response ) {

            console.log(response);

        },

        error : function(error) {

            console.log(error);

        }

      });

Here are some answers and docs I've looked at already but I'm still really confused:

(best one): https://auth0.com/blog/using-json-web-tokens-as-api-keys/

The definitive guide to form-based website authentication

Grafana passing access token in url

https://developer.zendesk.com/rest_api/docs/core/tickets#create-ticket

What should I be doing differently?