Add an authorization header to your swagger-ui with Swashbuckle

Out of the box there’s no way to add an Authorization header to your API requests from swagger-ui. Fortunately (if you’re using ASP.NET), Swashbuckle 5.0 is extendable, so it’s very easy to add a new IOperationFilter to do it for us:

public class AddAuthorizationHeaderParameterOperationFilter : IOperationFilter
{
    public void Apply(Operation operation, SchemaRegistry schemaRegistry, ApiDescription apiDescription)
    {
        if (operation.parameters != null)
        {
            operation.parameters.Add(new Parameter
            {
                name = "Authorization",
                @in = "header",
                description = "access token",
                required = false,
                type = "string"
            });
        }
    }
}

Now all you need to do is register it in your EnableSwagger call:

configuration
    .EnableSwagger(c =>
    {
        c.SingleApiVersion("v1", "Commerce Services - Discounts");

        foreach (var commentFile in xmlCommentFiles)
        {
            c.IncludeXmlComments(commentFile);
        }

        c.OperationFilter<ExamplesOperationFilter>();
        c.OperationFilter<AddAuthorizationHeaderParameterOperationFilter>();
    })
    .EnableSwaggerUi(config => config.DocExpansion(DocExpansion.List));

Once that’s done it’ll give you an input field where you can paste your Authorization header. Don’t forget to add the word “bearer” if you’re using a JWT token:

Edit: I wrote this more than a year ago using Swashbuckle 5.2.1, it may not work with later versions.