Django REST Framework: using TokenAuthentication with browsable API

You can't use the browsable api with TokenAuthentication. You have to add SessionAuthtication to your settings (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/authentication/#sessionauthentication):

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
    'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
),

You can use a browser plugin to set token in the header. I'm using Modheader which is free.

The example of setting the header:

I wrote a blog post on how this can be done: link to post.

I like this solution because you don't need to change the auth classes.