Account API Authentication

Use your account's API token to instruct Crossbar to create an authentication token to be used on subsequent requests requiring authentication.

Getting your API key from the API:

Use Account API to get API key for your account:

!!! note Must already authenticated as a user.

curl -v -X GET \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: {AUTH_TOKEN}" \
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/api_key

{
   "auth_token":"{AUTH_TOKEN}",
   "data":{
      "api_key":"{API_KEY}"
   },
   "revision":"{REQUEST_ID}",
   "request_id":"{REQUEST_ID}",
   "status":"success"
}

Schema

Provides an auth-token via an Account API key

Key	Description	Type	Default	Required	Support Level
api_key	The Accounts API key	string(64)		true

Create

PUT /v2/api_auth

Note:

• {AUTH_TOKEN}: this is your authentication token to include in future requests
• {ACCOUNT_ID}: your account's ID, useful for constructing URIs
• {OWNER_ID}: the user's ID of the owner of the credentials used to generate this token
• {RESELLER_ID}: this account's reseller account ID, if any.
• {REQUEST_ID}: useful for debugging requests on your installation

curl -v -X PUT \
    -d '{"data": {"api_key":"{API_KEY}"} }' \
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/api_auth

{
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "data": {
        "account_id": "{ACCOUNT_ID}",
        "apps": [...],
        "is_reseller": true,
        "language": "en-US",
        "owner_id": "{OWNER_ID}",
        "reseller_id": "{RESELLER_ID}",
    },
    "request_id": "{REQUEST_ID}",
    "revision": "{REVISION}",
    "status": "success"
}