Get today's advanced racecards, including UK & IRE odds, using Java (Standard Plan)

get_racecards.java

import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.URI;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Base64;

class GetRacecards {

    private static final String getBasicAuthenticationHeader(String username, String password) {
        String valueToEncode = username + ":" + password;
        return "Basic " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(valueToEncode.getBytes());
    }

	public static void main(String[] args) {

	HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
				.uri(URI.create("https://api.theracingapi.com/v1/racecards/standard"))
				.header("Authorization", getBasicAuthenticationHeader("<USERNAME>", "<PASSWORD>"))
				.method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
				.build();

	HttpResponse<String> response = null;
		try {
		    response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
		} catch (IOException e) {
		    e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
		    e.printStackTrace();
		}
		System.out.println(response.body());
	}
}