from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Security
from fastapi.security import APIKeyQuery
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

api_key = APIKeyQuery(name="key")


class User(BaseModel):
    username: str


def get_current_user(oauth_header: str = Security(api_key)):
    user = User(username=oauth_header)
    return user


@app.get("/users/me")

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Security
from fastapi.security import APIKeyQuery
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

api_key = APIKeyQuery(name="key", description="API Key Query")


class User(BaseModel):
    username: str


def get_current_user(oauth_header: str = Security(api_key)):
    user = User(username=oauth_header)
    return user


@app.get("/users/me")

from typing import Optional

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Security
from fastapi.security import APIKeyQuery
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from pydantic import BaseModel

app = FastAPI()

api_key = APIKeyQuery(name="key", auto_error=False)


class User(BaseModel):
    username: str


def get_current_user(oauth_header: Optional[str] = Security(api_key)):
    if oauth_header is None:
        return None

You can import them from `fastapi.security`:

```python
from fastapi.security import (
    APIKeyCookie,
    APIKeyHeader,
    APIKeyQuery,
    HTTPAuthorizationCredentials,
    HTTPBasic,
    HTTPBasicCredentials,
    HTTPBearer,
    HTTPDigest,
    OAuth2,
    OAuth2AuthorizationCodeBearer,
    OAuth2PasswordBearer,

from .api_key import APIKeyCookie as APIKeyCookie
from .api_key import APIKeyHeader as APIKeyHeader
from .api_key import APIKeyQuery as APIKeyQuery
from .http import HTTPAuthorizationCredentials as HTTPAuthorizationCredentials
from .http import HTTPBasic as HTTPBasic
from .http import HTTPBasicCredentials as HTTPBasicCredentials
from .http import HTTPBearer as HTTPBearer
from .http import HTTPDigest as HTTPDigest
from .oauth2 import OAuth2 as OAuth2

    The dependency result will be a string containing the key value.

    ## Example

    ```python
    from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
    from fastapi.security import APIKeyQuery

    app = FastAPI()

    query_scheme = APIKeyQuery(name="api_key")


    @app.get("/items/")
    async def read_items(api_key: str = Depends(query_scheme)):
        return {"api_key": api_key}
    ```
    """

* ✨ Add `description` parameter to all the security scheme classes, e.g. `APIKeyQuery(name="key", description="A very cool API key")`. PR [#1757](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1757) by [@hylkepostma](https://github.com/hylkepostma).