Cool! Thanks for posting this for others to utilize.

That looks pretty handy.

However, I would remind others to exercise due caution when sharing secrets like passwords or authentication tokens with
 a third party. Isiah's web page looks pretty trustworthy as I write this, but in general it is difficult to be sure.

Those of us running OSX or Linux can achieve the equivalent without sharing secrets with anyone by running the following
 command in a terminal:

echo "USERNAME:TOKEN" | openssl base64

Replace USERNAME and TOKEN in the above with the respective values sent to you. The resulting value printed to the 
console can be pasted into your code.