Get an Access Token

Endpoint URL: {registrationDomain} /access/getAccessToken

Description

Returns an access token for the specified user.

API Client Permissions

The following table indicates the API clients that can (and the API clients that can't) be used to call this endpoint:

owner	access_issuer	direct_access	direct_read_access	login_client
Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

Authentication

This endpoint supports both Basic authentication (recommended) and janrain-signed authentication.

How to Create an Authentication String

Base URL

The base URL for this endpoint is your Identity Cloud Capture domain; for example:

https://educationcenter.us- dev.janraincapture.com

Your Capture domains (also known as Registration domains) can be found in the Console on the Manage Application page:

Examples

Example Request

This command returns an access token for the user with the UUID 02b0c68d-7d7a-49d8-a88d-022585b0f877.


curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Basic dXQ0YmdycmE3dzI4MmpjZm15cGZxeDlwemhxaGpqMmI6dW5qemU5bndrZnV5NmpwdzgzOHFwYTdhZDNoZG55YTY="\
  --data-urlencode uuid=02b0c68d-7d7a-49d8-a88d-022585b0f877 \
  --data-urlencode type_name=user \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/access/getAccessToken

Running this command in Postman

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
uuid	string		UUID of the user account. This parameter is required if you are not using either the id parameter or the key_attribute parameter.
id	string		ID of the user account. This parameter is required if you are not using either the uuid parameter or the key_attribute parameter.
key_attribute	string		Name of a unique attribute found in the user profile schema. This parameter is required if you are not using either the id parameter or the uuid parameter.
key_value	string		Value assigned to the key_attribute parameter.
type_name	string	Yes	Name of the entityType.
for_client_id	string		Client ID of the client being used to retrieve an access token.

Responses

200 OK

Response Example (application/json)


{
  "accessToken": "tc7blahblah3tmaz",
  "stat": "ok"
}

How to Create an Authentication String

To create an authentication string, combine your API client ID, a colon (:), and your client secret into a single value. For example, if your client ID is abcdefg and your client secret is hijklmnop, that value would look like this:

abcdefg:hijklmnop

Next, take the string and base64 encode it. For example, on a Mac, you can base encode the string using this command:

echo -n "abcdefg:hijklmnop" | base64

If you’re running Microsoft Windows, you can encode the string by using a Windows PowerShell command similar to this:

[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("abcdefg:hijklmn"))

The resulting value (e.g., YWJjZGVmZzpoaWprbG1ub3A=) should be used in your authentication header.

If you are making API calls using Postman, select Basic Auth as your identification type, then use the client ID as the username and the client secret as the password.

Before you actually try your authentication string, make sure that your API client has the all the permissions (for example, the right to read user profile information) needed to complete the API call.

Endpoint URL: {registrationDomain} /access/getAccessToken

Description

API Client Permissions

Authentication

Base URL

Examples

Query Parameters

Responses

Running this Command in Postman

How to Create an Authentication String

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