diff --git a/nadeo_event_api/src/nadeo_event_api/api/pastefy/pastefy_api.py b/nadeo_event_api/src/nadeo_event_api/api/pastefy/pastefy_api.py
index e0bd1bf..c030ee3 100644
--- a/nadeo_event_api/src/nadeo_event_api/api/pastefy/pastefy_api.py
+++ b/nadeo_event_api/src/nadeo_event_api/api/pastefy/pastefy_api.py
@@ -3,17 +3,24 @@
 import datetime
 import json
 import requests
+from base64 import b64encode
 
 from nadeo_event_api.api.endpoints import PASTEFY_SKIFF_CREATE_URL, PASTEFY_SKIFF_RAW_URL_FMT
 from nadeo_event_api.objects.outbound.pastebin.tmwt_2v2 import Tmwt2v2Paste
 
-def post_tmwt_2v2(tmwt_2v2_pastebin: Tmwt2v2Paste, title: str) -> str:
+
+def get_auth(username: str, password: str) -> str:
+    return b64encode(f"{username}:{password}".encode('utf-8')).decode("ascii")
+
+
+def post_tmwt_2v2(tmwt_2v2_pastebin: Tmwt2v2Paste, title: str, basic_auth: str) -> str:
     """Posts a TMWT 2v2 paste to pastes.skiff.dev and returns the URL of the raw paste. Expires in 1 hour.
-        NOTE: Must have a whitelisted IP -- contact Matrix/Skiff for this if needed. 
+        NOTE: Contact Matrix/skiff for API credentials
 
     Args:
         tmwt_2v2_pastebin (Tmwt2v2Pastebin): The TMWT paste.
         title (str): The title of the paste.
+        auth (str): HTTP Basic Authentication header value
 
     Returns:
         str: The raw URL of the paste. 
@@ -29,13 +36,17 @@ def post_tmwt_2v2(tmwt_2v2_pastebin: Tmwt2v2Paste, title: str) -> str:
         "visibility": "PUBLIC",
     }
 
+    headers = {
+        "Authorization": f"Basic {basic_auth}"
+    }
+
     response = requests.post(
         url=PASTEFY_SKIFF_CREATE_URL,
+        headers=headers,
         data=data,
     )
     if response.status_code != 200:
-        print(response.text)
-        raise Exception(f"Failed to post to pastes.skiff.dev API.")
+        raise Exception(f"Failed to post to pastes.skiff.dev API - {response.content}")
     
     paste_id = response.json()["paste"]["id"]
     paste_url = PASTEFY_SKIFF_RAW_URL_FMT.format(paste_id)