POST - Authentication Token

/oauth2/token

POST/oauth2/token

Header parameters

Body

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

client_idstring

The client id obtained on sign-up with sypht.

grant_typestring

The type of authentication request - always set this to "client_credentials"

Response

200

OK

Body

application/json

access_tokenstring

The value to use as a bearerToken in Authorization header for making subsequent calls. ex Authorization=Bearer

Request

import requests
import base64
import os

url = 'https://auth.sypht.com/oauth2/token'
payload = 'client_id=' + os.environ['CLIENT_ID'] + '&grant_type=client_credentials'
auth_slug = os.environ['CLIENT_ID'] + ':' + os.environ['CLIENT_SECRET']
auth_slug_enc = base64.b64encode(auth_slug.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
headers = {
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  'Authorization': 'Basic ' + auth_slug_enc
}

response = requests.request('POST', url, headers=headers, data=payload, allow_redirects=False)
print(response.text)

Response

{
  "access_token": "text"
}