In the following example, we’re using a .Net Core 3.1 Console App that will call API with POST request that requires Authentication with a bearer token in Authrorization Header. The token is generated by passing credentials to another API endpoint.

For more details on how to use appSettings.json file in Console App, check this post.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{

    class Credentials
    {
        public string username { get; set; }
        public string password { get; set; }
    }

    class Token
    {
        public string token { get; set; }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string ResponseString = "";
            HttpWebResponse response = null;
            HttpWebResponse response2 = null;
            IConfiguration Config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                .AddJsonFile("appSettings.json")
                .Build();

            try
            {
                var baseURL = Config.GetSection("baseURL").Value;
                var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(baseURL + "/token");
                request.Accept = "application/json"; //"application/xml";
                request.Method = "POST";

		//Get credentials from config.
                var dusername = EncryptionService.Decrypt(Config.GetSection("credentials")["username"]);
                var dpassword = EncryptionService.Decrypt(Config.GetSection("credentials")["password"]);

                Credentials cred = new Credentials()
                {
                    username = dusername,
                    password = dpassword
                };

                var myContent = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(cred);

                var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(myContent);

                request.ContentType = "application/json";
                request.ContentLength = data.Length;

                using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
                {
                    stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
                }

                using (response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
                {
                    ResponseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
                }

		//Get the token from the /token end-point and call another end-point.
                Token token = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Token>(ResponseString);

                var request2 = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(baseURL + "/ProcessData");
                request2.Accept = "application/json"; //"application/xml";
                request2.Method = "POST";
				
		//Pass token in Authorization Header.
                request2.Headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer " + token.token;

                using (response2 = (HttpWebResponse)request2.GetResponse())
                {
                    ResponseString = new StreamReader(response2.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
                }

                Console.WriteLine(ResponseString);
                Environment.Exit(0);
            }
            catch (WebException ex)
            {
                if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
                {
                    response = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response;
                    ResponseString = "Some error occured: " + response.StatusCode.ToString();
                }
                else
                {
                    ResponseString = "Some error occured: " + ex.Status.ToString();
                }
            }

        }
    }

}